Taxonomic Information
Lacera procellosa Butler, 1879 has white finger-like marking parallel to dorsum of FW, while in noctilio, it is somewhat perpendicular to dorsum.
Lacera Guenée, 1852 species known from India
Lacera alope (Cramer, [1780]). India; Sri Lanka; Myanmar.
Lacera noctilio (Fabricius, 1794). Indian subregion.
Lacera procellosa Butler, 1879. India; Nepal.
Lacera uniformis Holloway, 1979. Indian subregion.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Lacera noctilio (Fabricius, 1794): Caesalpinia spp. (Fabaceae), Canthium spp. (Rubiaceae), Pisonia spp. (Nyctaginaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Noctua noctilio Fabricius, 1794. Ent. Sys. 3 (2): 12. TL: India.
- Lacera capella Guenée, 1852. In Boisduval & Guenée, Hist. nat. Insectes (Lepid) 7:337.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 261 pp. + 45 pls. Pg. 38, Pl. 9/21-23
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/noctilio.html [accessed 03 September 2020]
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/hulodini/hulodini_2_1.php
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=76920 [accessed 03 September 2020]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/355437-Lacera-noctilio
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lacera noctilio (Fabricius, 1794) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/lacera-noctilio, accessed 2025/04/30.