Taxonomic Information
Penicillaria Guenée, 1852 species known from India.
Penicillaria jocosatrix Guenée, 1852. Indo-Australian tropics.
Penicillaria lineatrix Walker, 1858. S. India (TL: "Canara"), Maharashtra.
Penicillaria maculata Butler, 1889. Oriental tropics.
Penicillaria nugatrix Guenée, 1852. India.
Penicillaria plusioides (Walker, 1862). Oriental tropics; India: Arunachal Pradesh, Naga Hills.
Penicillaria simplex (Walker, 1865). Oriental tropics.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 |
- Eleale plusioides Walker, 1862. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 6: 135; TL: Borneo. Text at https://archive.org/stream/journalofproceed06linn#page/135/mode/1up
- Eutelia fulvipicta Hampson, 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg. 394, #2268
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pg 77 & Pl. 20/34
- https://www.papua-insects.nl/insect%20orders/Lepidoptera/Euteliidae/Euteliinae/Penicillaria/Penicillaria%20plusioides.htm
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-14/euteliinae/euteliinae_1_6.php
- https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=281989
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Penicillaria plusioides (Walker, 1862) – . 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/penicillaria-plusioides, accessed 2025/04/30.