Taxonomic Information
List of Katha Moore, 1878 species known from India.
Katha conformis (Walker), 1854, India (NW Himalayas, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Mizoram).
Katha montana Bucsek, 2012, India (Arunachal Pradesh).
Katha spinoapex N. Singh & Kirti, 2016, India (Sikkim).
Katha volynkini Joshi & N. Singh, 2018, India (Meghalaya, Mizoram).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Katha conformis -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
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| Goa | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 5 | 2 | 3 |
- OD: Lithosia conformis Walker, 1854. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 2: 509. Text at at http://archive.org/stream/listofspecimens13brit#page/509/mode/1up [accessed 08 June 2021]
- Lithosia nigrifrons Moore, 1872. Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London, Pg 572. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen72zool/page/572/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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 83, # 1358. Listed as Lithosia conformis with only female described.
- Ilema conformis Hampson, G. F. (1900). Catalogue of the Arctiidae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the collection of the British Museum in Catalogue of the Lepidoptera, Phalaenae in the British Museum, Vol II, # 285, pg 146.
- Dubatolov, V.V.; Y. Kishida & M. Wang, 2012. New records of lichen-moths from the Nanling Mts., Guangdong, South China, with descriptions of new genera and species (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). Tinea 22 (1): 25-52. Fig 4.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1, pp 1-205. Nature Books of India, New Delhi. pg 127.
- Joshi, R., Singh, N. and Singh, J., 2018. Description of a new Katha species from India, with a key to the Oriental species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Zootaxa, 4407(3), pp.435-442. Figure 2.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Katha conformis (Walker, 1854) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/katha-conformis, accessed 2024/04/16.