Abstract
A new species, Chadisra curvipenis N. Singh, Ahmad & Raha, sp. nov. is described from the Great Nicobar Island, India, and its detailed description along with habitus images, male genitalia illustrations and diagnoses with similar congeners are provided. A complete checklist of the genus with distributional records and a distribution map are given.
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