Taxonomic Information
Lophoptera Guenée, 1852 species known from the Indian subcontinent:
Lophoptera anthyalus (Hampson, 1894). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Lophoptera apirtha (Swinhoe, 1900). India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Solun).
Lophoptera belli Holloway, 1985. S. India.
Lophoptera coangulata Warren, 1914. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Lophoptera denticulata (Walker, 1865). India; Myanmar.
Lophoptera hemithyris (Hampson, 1905), India: Tamil Nadu (TL: Chennai (Madras), Cuddapah),
Lophoptera hypenistis (Hampson, 1905). Myanmar (TL: Hsipaw).
Lophoptera illucida (Walker, 1865). Oriental tropics.
Lophoptera khasiana Warren, 1914. NE Himalaya.
Lophoptera longipennis (Moore, 1882). NE Himalaya: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Lophoptera nama (Swinhoe, 1901), India: NE Himalaya, Meghalaya (TL: Jaintia Hills).
Lophoptera negretina (Hampson, 1902). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Lophoptera obliquilinea Prout, 1928. Myanmar.
Lophoptera olivascens (Moore, 1882). NE Himalaya.
Lophoptera polygrapha (Walker, 1864). S. India; Sri Lanka.
Lophoptera squammigera Guenée, 1852. Oriental tropics.
Lophoptera squammilinea Holloway, 1985. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Lophoptera submarginata Holloway, 1985. S. Myanmar.
Lophoptera tenuis (Moore, 1867). NE Himalaya: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Lophoptera triangulata Berio, 1973. Myanmar.
Lophoptera vittigera Walker, 1865. S. India; Sri Lanka.
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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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
- Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. Tome Septiéme. Noctuélites. Tome 3 Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 7 (Noct. 3) : 1-443, Atlas (Noctuelites): pl. 1-24 (1858). TL: Lophoptera squammigera. Noct. 3: Page 54.
- Qi, F., Wang, K., Xue, D. and Yang, D., 2011. A taxonomic revision of the Stictopterinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae) in China. Zootaxa, 2926(1), pp.1-45. Pg 19 & figs 60-63.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lophoptera spp. Guenée, 1852 – . 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/lophoptera-spp, accessed 2025/10/31.