Lobesia aeolopa Meyrick, 1907 -

Taxonomic Information

Lobesia Guenée, 1845 species known from India (Pathania et al 2020).  
Lobesia aeolopa Meyrick, 1907. India: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttarakhand.
Lobesia clarisecta Meyrick, 1932. India: Kashmir. 
Lobesia fetialis (Meyrick, 1920). India: Bihar.
Lobesia genialis Meyrick, 1912. India: Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand; Sri Lanka. 
Lobesia orphica (Meyrick, 1920). India: Meghalaya. 

This species is provisionally identified as Lobesia aeolopa Meyrick, 1907. Identification of this genus to species level based on photographs is difficult. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra1
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal1
Total11
  1. Lobesia aeolopa Meyrick, 1907. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 17:976. TL: Ceylon, Bombay. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95250#page/1110/mode/1up
  2. Fletcher, 1920. Memoirs of Dept of Agriculture, 6:54 for life history.
  3. Inoue, H., S. Sugi,  H. Kuroko, S. Moriuti & A. Kawabe. 1982. Moths of Japan, Vol. 2. Plates and synonymic catalogue. Japan, Kodansha Co. Ltd. 111 pp. Pl. 25/10. 
  4. Robinson, G.S., K.R.Tuck, M. Shaffer & K. Cook. 1994. The Smaller Moths of South-East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 308 pp., 51 figs., 32 pls. pl. 16/4. 
  5. Razowski, ,1995. Acta zoil. conc, 38:295
  6. Pinkaew, Nantasak & Phewphanh, Phonepadith, 2017, First report on the Olethreutini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) of Lao PDR with descriptions of two new species, pp. 125-141 in Zootaxa 4358 (1) on page 129, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3769325. Fig. 16. 
  7. https://africanmoths.com/pages/MICRO'S/Tortricidae/Lobesia%20aeolopa.html
  8. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=155897
  9. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/209609-Lobesia-aeolopa

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Lobesia aeolopa Meyrick, 1907 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Lobesia-aeolopa, accessed 2024/05/03.