Taxonomic Information
Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 species known from India.
Acontia binominata (Butler, 1892). India: Tamil Nadu (TL: Coimbatore), Maharashtra, Rajasthan; Pakistan.
Acontia catena (Sowerby, 1806). India: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu; Pakistan.
Acontia catenula (Walker, 1865). India: Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi.
Acontia costistigma Walker, [1858]. N. India.
Acontia crocata Guenée, 1852. India: “N. India”, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu.
Acontia deceptrix (Warren, 1913). India: Kerala (TL: Travancore.
Acontia erronea Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008. Sri Lanka (TL: Mambantota).
Acontia hemiglauca (Hampson, 1910). India: Tamil Nadu (TL: Nilgiris).
Acontia lucida (Hufnagel, 1766). India: Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, West Bengal.
Acontia marmoralis (Fabricius, 1794). India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chandigarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand.
Acontia melanchlaena (Swinhoe, 1891). India: Karnataka (TL: North Kanara)
Acontia nitidula (Fabricius, 1787). India: Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Acontia notabilis (Walker, 1857). India: Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.
Acontia olivacea (Hampson, 1891). India: India: Tamil Nadu (TL: Nilgiris).
Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852. India: Tamil Nadu (TL: "Cote de Coromandel"), Delhi.
Acontia rufitincta (Hampson, 1910). India: Tamil Nadu (TL: “Madras”), Andhra Pradesh.
Acontia upsilon (Walker, 1865). India: S. India (TL: “Deccan”).
Acontia sexpunctata (Fabricius, 1794). India: Delhi.
Needs verification.
Acontia transversa Guenée, 1852
Acontia intersepta Guenée, 1852
Acontia graellsii Feisth, 1837
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 |
- Acontia costalis Walker, 1865: 784 (preocc. Acontia costalis Walker, 1858) (TL: South Hindostan (South India), binominata is a replacement name of Acontia costalis Walker, 1865))
- Tarache binominata; Hampson, FBI, Vol. 2, pg. 313.
- Hoplotarache costalis; Hampson, 1910; Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum, Vol. 10, pg. 714, Pl. 170/27. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18435506#page/740/mode/1up. Plate at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid410brit/page/n529/mode/2up
- Hoplotarache costalis inquinata Warren, 1913: 299, pl. 27 b (TL: Ajmere [Ajmer, Rajasthan, India])
- Joshi, R., Raha, A., Bandyopadhyay, U., Bhattacharyya, K. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India. Zootaxa, 5669(1), pp.1-225. Pg. 13.
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Acontia binominata (Butler, 1892) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/acontia-binominata, accessed 2026/03/30.