Taxonomic Information
Tonica Walker, 1864 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Tonica barrowi (Bingham, 1907). Myanmar.
Tonica gypsopis Meyrick, 1928. India: Andamans.
Tonica niviferana (Walker, 1864). 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 | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Tonica niviferana (Walker, 1864): Bombax ceiba, Ceiba pentandra (Malvaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Binsitta niviferana Walker, 1864. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, pg 832. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso2930brit#page/832/mode/1up
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (Insecta : Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong. Plate 3/14.
- Shubhalaxmi, V. 2018. Birdwing Field Guide to Indian Moths, 1st Edition. Birdwing Publishers, India, 461pp. Plate 155/6.
- https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=29419.0. Treatment of both family/subfamily for this genus is unclear.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/371468-Tonica-niviferana
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Tonica niviferana (Walker, 1864) – . 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/tonica-niviferana, accessed 2025/10/27.