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Acontia marmoralis (Fabricius, 1794): Sida alnifolia, Gossypium spp. (Malvaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010). 
  1. Phalaena marmoralis Fabricius, 1794, Ent. Syst. 3 (2): 234. 
  2. Acontia tropica Guenée, 1852, in BSD & GN, Hist. Nat. Ins., Noct. 2: 217. 
  3. Acontia bipunctata Walker, 1858, List. Spec. Lep. Ins. Colln. Br. Mus. 12: 798. 
  4. Acontia maculosa Walker, 1858, List. Spec. Lep. Ins. Colln. Br. Mus. 12: 795. 
  5. 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. 314, # 2030, Fig. 170. Male. As Tarache tropica. 
  6. Hacker, H., Legrain, A. and Fibiger, M., 2008. Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenee, 1841 (Old World)(Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acontiinae). Esperiana, 14, pp.7-533. 
  7. Chen, F.Q., Yang, C. & Xue, D.Y. 2012. A taxonomic study of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae) from China. Entomotaxonomia 34(2): 275–283. 
  8. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 87/8. 
  9. 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. Pl. 36/40-41 
  10. Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (Insecta : Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong.Pl. 41/9. 
  11. Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 141.1
  12. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/203867-Acontia-marmoralis 
  13. http://www.jpmoth.org/Noctuidae/Acontiinae+Eustrotiinae/Acontia_marmoralis.html  [accessed 20 July 2021]

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Anonymous 2024. Acontia marmoralis (Fabricius, 1794) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.72. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/acontia-marmoralis, accessed 2024/03/29.