Mudaria cornifrons Moore, 1893 -

Taxonomic Information

Mudaria Moore, 1893 species known from the Indian subcontinent:

Mudaria albonotata (Hampson, 1893). Sri Lanka

Mudaria cornifrons Moore, 1893. E. Himalaya.

Mudaria fisherae Prout, 1928. Sri Lanka. 

Mudaria leprosa (Hampson, 1898). Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. 

Mudaria leprosticta (Hampson, 1907). India; Sri Lanka.

Mudaria major (Warren, 1914). E. Himalaya, S. India. 

Mudaria turbata (Walker, 1858). NE Himalaya.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Mudaria cornifrons -


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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
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
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Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
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Mudaria cornifrons Moore, 1893: Bombax ceiba, Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae), Gossypium (Malvaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).

  1. OD: Mudaria cornifrons Moore, 1893. Indian Mus. Notes 3 (1): 69; TL: Calcutta. Text at https://archive.org/details/indianmuseumnot311893indi/page/69/mode/1up?view=theater
  2. Mudaria cornifrons; Hampson, 1910. Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 9: 226, # 4600, f. 87. Text  & figure at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid09brituoft/page/226/mode/1up?view=theater
  3. 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. 245, # 1825. 
  4. Pellinen, M., Mutanen, M. and Sihvonen, P., 2018. New species of genus Mudaria Moore, 1893 and the first record of Mudaria cornifrons Moore, 1893 from Thailand (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae). Zootaxa, 4500(2), pp.292-300. Fig. 6a-d for M. cornifrons. 
  5. https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=804706
Notes: Mudaria variabilis and Mudaria grisescens are similar species from external morphology. They can be separated by the shape of the frons and genitalia.Das et al. 2020 lists Mudaria major and Mudaria leprosticta from the Western Ghats. Mudaria cornifrons was described from N. India, and there are no published records of this species from the Western Ghats; hence provisionally identified as cornifrons

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Mudaria cornifrons Moore, 1893 – . 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/mudaria-cornifrons, accessed 2024/04/18.