Scopula fibulata (Guenée, [1858]) -

Taxonomic Information

List of Scopula Schrank, 1802 from India based on Kirti et al. (2019). 
Scopula acharis Prout, 1938. India: Mishmi Hills, Lohit River, Arunachal Pradesh.
Scopula achrosta Prout, 1935. India: Kashmir Valley; 7000ft.
Scopula actuaria actuaria (Walker, 1861). Sri Lanka; India.
Scopula addictaria (Walker, 1861). Sri Lanka; India: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, Khasis, Meghalaya, Pune, Maharashtra, Nilgiris
Scopula adeptaria adeptaria (Walker, 1861). Sri Lanka; India: Ganjam, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Scopula albiflava (Warren, 1896). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula albomaculata (Moore, 1888). India: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Scopula anaitisaria (Walker, 1861). India: South India.
Scopula annexata Prout, 1938. India: Orrisa, Nilgiris.
Scopula annularia annularia (Swinhoe, 1890). Myanmar: Rangoon. India: NE Himalaya.
Scopula asparta Prout, 1938. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula aspilataria (Walker, 1861). Sri Lanka; India: Indian Himalaya.
Scopula atriceps (Hampson, 1895). India: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Scopula atridiscata (Warren, 1897). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula attentata attentata (Walker, 1861). India.
Scopula attentata nicobarica Prout, 1938. India: Nicobar Islands.
Scopula bispurcata (Warren, 1898). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula butleri butleri (Prout, 1913). India: Kangara district, Himachal Pradesh.
Scopula butyrosa (Warren, 1893). India: Mongpong, about 4000ft. Sikkim.
Scopula caesaria (Walker, 1861).
Scopula campbelli Prout, 1920. India: Palni Hills, South India.
Scopula celebraria (Walker, 1861). India: South India.
Scopula cleoraria cleoraria (Walker, 1861). India: North India, South India.
Scopula coangulata Prout, 1920. India: Assam, Khasi hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula complanata (Warren, 1896). India: Khasis, Meghalaya, Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Scopula consimilata (Warren, 1896). India: Khasi hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula costata (Moore, 1887).
Scopula decorata eurhythma Prout, 1935.
Scopula deliciosaria (Walker, 1861). India: North India, South India.
Scopula dimoera Prout, 1922. India: Palni Hills.
Scopula emissaria (Walker, 1861).
Scopula erubescens (Warren, 1895). India: Khasi hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula eulomata (Snellen, 1877). India: Nagas, Nagaland.
Scopula extimaria (Walker, 1861). India: NW Himalayas, Sikkim, Nagas, Nagaland.
Scopula ferrilineata (Moore, 1888).
Scopula ferruginea (Hampson, 1893).
Scopula fibulata (Guenée, [1858]). Sri Lanka; Throughout India.
Scopula flavifurfurata Prout, 1920, India: Subathu, Himachal Pradesh.
Scopula fluidaria (Swinhoe, 1886). India: Pune, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Scopula furfurata (Warren, 1897). India: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Scopula humilis Prout, 1913. India: Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh.
Scopula hyphenophora hyphenophora (Warren, 1896). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula idearia (Swinhoe, 1886). India: Pune, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Scopula inangulata (Warren, 1896). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula incanata (Linnaeus, 1758).
Scopula inflexibilis (Prout, 1931). India: South Andaman, Port Blair.
Scopula insolata (Butler, 1889).
Scopula intensata (Moore, 1887).
Scopula intensata ochriata Prout, 1938. India: Nilgiri, Palnis.
Scopula kashmirensis (Moore, 1888). India: Kashmir.
Scopula kashmirensis gooraisensis Prout, 1935. India: Goorais Valley, Kashmir.
Scopula kashmirensis quettensis Prout, 1935.
Scopula linearis (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiri District, N slopes, 3500ft; S slopes, 3000ft; W slopes 3000ft.
Scopula mecysma (Swinhoe, 1894).
Scopula melanstigma Prout, 1938. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula modesta (Moore, [1887]). Sri Lanka; India: Nilgiri district, N slopes, 3500ft.
Scopula monosema Prout, 1923. India: Kashmir: probably c. 1000ft.
Scopula moorei moorei (Cotes & Swinhoe, 1888). India: Bengal.
Scopula moorei metarsia Prout, 1938. India: Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.
Scopula nesciaria nesciaria (Walker, 1861). Sri Lanka; India.
Scopula nigridentata (Warren, 1896). Khasi Hills, Shillong, Meghalaya.
Scopula nitidissima Prout, 1920. India: Kashmir Valley, 7000ft.
Scopula ocheracea (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiri district, N slopes, 3500ft
Scopula ochricrinita Prout, 1920. India: Assam, Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula opicata (Fabricius, 1798).
Scopula pallida (Warren, 1888). India: NW Himalayas
Scopula patularia (Walker, 1866). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula pedilata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875). India: Sri Lanka, Dharamsala
Scopula polystigmaria (Hampson, 1903). India: Rajaori, Kashmir.
Scopula prosthiostigma Prout, 1938. India: Sikkim.
Scopula pulchellata (Fabricius, 1794).
Scopula pulverosa Prout, 1934. India: Assam, Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula quinquestriata Warren, 1896). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula remotata (Guenée, 1858). India: North India.
Scopula rufistigma (Warren, 1895). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula scialophia Prout, 1919. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula sordida (Warren, 1895). India: Nilgiris.
Scopula stigmata (Moore, 1888). India (North-West): Solan, Himachal Pradesh.
Scopula straminea (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875). Indian Himalaya.
Scopula subcarnea Prout, 1934. India: Shillong; Khasia mountains, Meghalaya.
Scopula sublutescens Prout, 1920. India: Assam, Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula subpartita Prout, 1919. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula subtracta Prout, 1935. India: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Scopula tenuimedia Prout, 1938. India: Khasi Hills, Cherrapunji, Meghalaya.
Scopula undulataria (Moore, 1888). India: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Scopula unilineata (Warren, 1896). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Scopula violacea Warren, 1897). India: Sikkim.
Scopula walkeri (Butler, 1883). Sri Lanka; India: Nilgiris, Khasis, Meghalaya.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh1
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka11
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra3122
Manipur
Meghalaya1
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim1
Tamil Nadu1
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand1
West Bengal
Total313143
Scopula fibulata (Guenée, [1858]): Begonia (Begoniaceae), Spinacia oleracea (Amaranthaceae), Petunia (Solanaceae), Calanthe vestita (Orchidaceae), Brassica oleracea (Brassicaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
  1. OD:Acidalia fibulata Guenée, [1858]. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Spécies général des Lépidoptères. IX. Uranides et Phalénites. 490; pl. 15, fig. 5
  2. Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs.pg 432 #3879 as Craspedia fibulata. 
  3. Seitz, A. (Ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Vol 12 pg 196 & Pl 20h.
  4. Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of Geometrid moths (Heterocera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad Mundanturai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa (in press). Fig. 15.
  5. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=458269 [accessed 16 October 2021]

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Scopula fibulata (Guenée, [1858]) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.80. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/scopula-fibulata, accessed 2024/10/13.