Taxonomic Information
Erythroplusia pyropia (Butler, 1879)
Moths of Nepal Part 2, Pl. 44/6-7.
FBI, Hampson, Vol. 2, Pg. 572 as Plusia pyropisa.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Zonoplusia ochreata (Walker, 1865): Polygonum (Polygonaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Plusia ochreata Walker, 1865. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 33: 839; TL: Ceylon. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/839/mode/1up?view=theater
- Plusia cornucopiae Snellen, 1880, Tijdschr. Ent. 23: 72.
- 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. 573, #2676 as Plusia ochreata.
- Zonoplusia ochreata Walker. Chou & Lu, 1979, Entomotaxonomia 1: 15.
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (Insecta : Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong.Pl. 38/29.
- Sekhon, C.K. and Singh, J., 2015. Recharacterization of Genus Zonoplusia Chou & Lu (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera). Int. J. Pure App. Biosci, 3(2), pp.519-521.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 44/17.
- The Witt Catalogue, Volume 2: A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North African Noctuoidea. Pg. 48.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=77009 [accessed 23 May 2021]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202785-Zonoplusia-ochreata
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-14/plusiinae/plusiinae_5_1.php
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/plus/ochreata.html [accessed 23 May 2021]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Zonoplusia ochreata (Walker, 1865) – . 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/zonoplusia-ochreata, accessed 2025/11/02.

















