Taxonomic Information
Cerynea Walker, 1859 species from the Indian subcontinent
Cerynea igniaria (Hampson, 1898). Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Cerynea punctilinealis (Walker, [1866]). TL: Sri Lanka. Indo-Australian tropics.
Cerynea contentaria (Walker, 1861). TL: Sarawak, Borneo. S. India; Sri Lanka.
Cerynea ustula (Hampson, 1898). India, Andaman Is.; Sri Lanka.
Cerynea contentaria (Walker, 1861) is a similar species.
Ephyra contentaria Walker, 1861. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Geometrites. Vol. 22. Pg. 639. TL: Sarawak, Borneo. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39713449#page/155/mode/1up.
Holloway, J. D. 2009. Moths of Borneo 13. Family Noctuidae, subfamilies Paneinae (part), Bagisarinae, Acontiinae, Aediinae, Eustrotiinae, Bryophilinae, Araeopteroinae, Aventiinae, Eublemminae and further miscellaneous genera Malayan Nature J. 62 (1-2) : 1-240. Pl. 4/12 & 13 for Cerynea contentaria.
Hampson (1894) treats Cerynea punctilinealis (Walker, [1866]) as synonym of Cerynea contentaria (Walker, 1861) and lists its distribution as "Nilgiris; Ceylon; Borneo". Holloway (2009) treats both Cerynea contentaria and Cerynea punctilinealis as valid species; both species are recorded in Borneo.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Chusaris punctilinealis Walker, 1865 [1866]. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 33-34. Pg. 1175. TL: Sri Lanka. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120100#page/481/mode/1up.
- 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. 346, #2141 as a synonym of Zagira contentaria.
- Holloway, J, D. 2009. Moths of Borneo 13. Family Noctuidae, subfamilies Paneinae (part), Bagisarinae, Acontiinae, Aediinae, Eustrotiinae, Bryophilinae, Araeopteroinae, Aventiinae, Eublemminae and further miscellaneous genera Malayan Nature J. 62 (1-2) : 1-240. Pl. 4/11 for Cerynea punctilinealis.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/428667-Cerynea-punctilinealis
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Cerynea punctilinealis (Walker, [1866]) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.82. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/cerynea-punctilinealis, accessed 2025/01/22.