Taxonomic Information
Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 species known from India.
Acontia costistigma Walker, [1858]. N. India.
Acontia deceptrix (Warren, 1913). India: TL: Travancore.
Acontia erronea Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008. Sri Lanka (TL: Mambantota).
Acontia notabilis (Walker, 1857). India: Punjab, Delhi.
Acontia olivacea (Hampson, 1891). India: India: Tamil Nadu (TL: Nilgiris).
Acontia rufitincta (Hampson, 1910). India: Tamil Nadu (TL: “Madras”), Andhra Pradesh.
Acontia marmoralis (Fabricius, 1794). India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chandigarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand.
Acontia hemiglauca (Hampson, 1910). India: Tamil Nadu (TL: Nilgiris).
Acontia catenula (Walker, 1865). India: Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi.
Acontia lucida (Hufnagel, 1766). India: Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh,
Acontia nitidula (Fabricius, 1787). India: Maharashtra.
Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852. India: Tamil Nadu (TL: "Cote de Coromandel"), Delhi.
Acontia crocata Guenée, 1852. India: “N. India”, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu.
Acontia upsilon (Walker, 1865). India: S. India (TL: “Deccan”).
Acontia sexpunctata (Fabricius, 1794). India: Delhi.
Needs verification.
Acontia transversa Guenée, 1852
Acontia intersepta Guenée, 1852
Acontia graellsii Feisth, 1837
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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| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Gujarat | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
- Phalaena marmoralis Fabricius, 1794, Ent. Syst. 3 (2): 234.
- Acontia tropica Guenée, 1852, in BSD & GN, Hist. Nat. Ins., Noct. 2: 217.
- Acontia bipunctata Walker, 1858, List. Spec. Lep. Ins. Colln. Br. Mus. 12: 798.
- Acontia maculosa Walker, 1858, List. Spec. Lep. Ins. Colln. Br. Mus. 12: 795.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 87/8.
- 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
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (Insecta : Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong.Pl. 41/9.
- 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
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/203867-Acontia-marmoralis
- http://www.jpmoth.org/Noctuidae/Acontiinae+Eustrotiinae/Acontia_marmoralis.html [accessed 20 July 2021]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Acontia marmoralis (Fabricius, 1794) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.92. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/acontia-marmoralis, accessed 2025/07/13.