Taxonomic Information
Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 species known from India.
Acontia costistigma Walker, [1858]. N. India.
Acontia deceptrix (Warren, 1913). India: TL: Travancore.
Acontia erronea Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008. Sri Lanka (TL: Mambantota).
Acontia notabilis (Walker, 1857). India: Punjab, Delhi.
Acontia olivacea (Hampson, 1891). India: India: Tamil Nadu (TL: Nilgiris).
Acontia rufitincta (Hampson, 1910). India: Tamil Nadu (TL: “Madras”), Andhra Pradesh.
Acontia marmoralis (Fabricius, 1794). India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chandigarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand.
Acontia hemiglauca (Hampson, 1910). India: Tamil Nadu (TL: Nilgiris).
Acontia catenula (Walker, 1865). India: Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi.
Acontia lucida (Hufnagel, 1766). India: Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh,
Acontia nitidula (Fabricius, 1787). India: Maharashtra.
Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852. India: Tamil Nadu (TL: "Cote de Coromandel"), Delhi.
Acontia crocata Guenée, 1852. India: “N. India”, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu.
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
Acontia nitidula -
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| Total | 6 | 2 | 1 |
- OD:Bombyx nitidula Fabricius, 1787. Mantissa Insectorum 2: pg 126.
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg. 312, #2022 as Tarache catena.
- Seitz, A (Ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Vol 11, pg 305 as Tarache nitidula (= T. catena), Plate 27f - https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/252298#page/559/mode/1up.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl 87/1.
- Hacker, H., Legrain, A. and Fibiger, M., 2008. Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenee, 1841 (Old World)(Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acontiinae). Esperiana, 14, pp.7-533. Pg. 45.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Acontia nitidula (Fabricius, 1787) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/acontia-nitidula, accessed 2025/10/26.