Taxonomic Information
Episothalma Swinhoe, 1893 species known from India.
Episothalma robustaria (Guenée, [1858]). India: "Inde central" (TL), Arunachal Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, West Bengal.
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| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
Episothalma robustaria (Guenée, 1858): Senegalia caesia, Senegalia pennata (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Hemithea robustaria Guenée, 1858 in Boisduval & Guenée, Hist. Nat. Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.) 9: 383. Holotype , India (central). (ZFMK)
- Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Pl.5:78.
- Xue, D., Wang, X. and Han, H., 2009. A revision of Episothalma Swinhoe, 1893, with descriptions of two new species and one new genus (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Geometrinae). Zootaxa, 2033(1), pp.13-25. Fig. 1-5.
- Murillo-Ramos, L., Brehm, G., Sihvonen, P., Hausmann, A., Holm, S., Ghanavi, H.R., Õunap, E., Truuverk, A., Staude, H., Friedrich, E. and Tammaru, T., 2019. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies. PeerJ, 7, p.e7386. For tribal placement.
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_33_1.php [accessed 02 March 2020]
Note: Media code bj661 on https://www.mothsofindia.org/episothalma-robustaria is Pseudepisothalma ocellata (Swinhoe, 1893).
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Episothalma robustaria (Guenée, [1858]) – . 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/episothalma-robustaria, accessed 2025/11/01.