Subspecies in India
Epobeidia lucifera lucifera (Swinhoe, 1893). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Epobeidia lucifera semifumosa (Prout, 1925). India: Naga Hills [Nagaland], 5000-8000ft.
Taxonomic Information
Epobeidia Wehrli, 1939 species known from India.
Epobeidia lucifera (Swinhoe, 1893). India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland; Nepal.
Epobeidia fumosa (Warren, 1893). India: Naga Hills.
Epobeidia tigrata (Guenée, [1858]). India: Central & NE India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- , pg 309, # 3551 as Obeidia tigrata.
- , pl 8, # 22.
- Inoue, H, 2003. A revision of the genus Obeidia Walker (Geoemetridae, Ennominae), with descriptions of four new genera, two new species and one new subspecies. Tinea, 17(3), pp.133-156.
- Liu, B., Stüning, D. and Han, H., 2025. Further taxonomic studies of the mimetic genus Euryobeidia Fletcher, 1979 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae, Baptini), with descriptions of four new taxa and two status changes. ZooKeys, 1260, p.313.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=98769 [accessed 15 sep 2016]
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Epobeidia lucifera (Swinhoe, 1893) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/epobeidia-lucifera, accessed 2026/01/31.