Taxonomic Information
Catocala Schrank, 1802 species known from the Indian subcontinent (Joshi et al 2024).
Catocala afghana Swinhoe, 1885. Pakistan; India: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh.
Catocala armandi Poujade, 1888. India: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh.
Catocala concubia Walker, [1858]. India: North India, Punjab.
Catocala benedeki Borth, Kons, Saldaitis & Gall, 2017. Pakistan, Karakoram; India: Uttarakhand (Gangotri).
Catocala distorta Butler, 1889. India: Himachal Pradesh.
Catocala dotatoides Poole, 1989. India: Himachal Pradesh (Kulu).
Catocala flavescens Hampson, 1894. India: Himachal Pradesh (Shimla), Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh; Pakistan.
Catocala fuscinupta Hampson, 1913. India: Himachal Pradesh (Dharmsala), Sikkim, Kashmir; Pakistan.
Catocala hyperconnexa Sugi, 1965. India: Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Catocala inconstans Butler, 1889. India: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir.
Catocala kishidai. Myanmar.
Catocala leechi Hampson, 1913. India: Kashmir.
Catocala macula (Hampson, 1891). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Kerala; Nepal.
Catocala nymphaea (Esper, 1787). India: Sikkim, West Bengal, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh.
Catocala nivea Butler, 1877. India: Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Catocala nupta (Linnaeus, 1767). India: North India, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh.
Catocala patala Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874. India: North India.
Catocala pataloides Mell, 1931. India: North India.
Catocala persimilis. India: Western India.
Catocala prolifica [Walker, 1858]. India: Himachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Catocala pudica pudica Moore, 1879. India: Ladakh.
Catocala rhodosoma Röber, 1927. India: Nagaland (Naga Hills).
Catocala siamensis Kishida & Suzuki, 2002. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Catocala sponsalis (Walker, [1858]). North India; Nepal; Myanmar.
Catocala tapestrina Moore, 1882. Bhutan; Nepal; India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Catocala hyperconnexa -
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| Total | 3 | 1 |
- OD: Catocala hyperconnexa Sugi, 1965. Tinea, 7: 87. TL: Tokyo, Japan.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993.Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 45/5.
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Pg. 9, Image 180.
- Joshi, R., Zahiri, R., Banerjee, D. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5635(1), pp.1-247.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=316820
- http://insecta.pro/taxonomy/71679
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Catocala hyperconnexa Sugi, 1965 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.91. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/catocala-hyperconnexa, accessed 2025/06/15.