The genus Pandava Lehtinen is represented by nine species in the world, of which six have been reported from India. Pandava laminata (Thorell, 1878) is having wide distribution range previously reported from Africa to Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia but only record in South Asia was from Sri Lanka. In this paper, we report P. laminata from India for the first time. A detailed taxonomic description on both the sexes is provided along with natural history information.
