Taxonomic Information
List of Agathia Guenée, [1858] known from India based on Kirti et al. (2019).
Agathia angustilimes Prout, 1926. India: Pusa, Bihar.
Agathia arcuata Moore, 1868. India: Bengal.
Agathia beata Butler, 1880. India: Sikkim, Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Agathia carissima prasina Swinhoe, 1893. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Agathia codina Swinhoe, 1892. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Agathia conviridaria (Hübner, 1823).
Agathia diversiformis Warren, 1894. India: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Agathia gaudens Prout, 1932. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Agathia gemma Swinhoe, 1892. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Agathia gigantea Butler, 1880. India: Indian Himalaya.
Agathia hemithearia Guenée, 1857. India: Central India.
Agathia hilarata Guenée, [1858]. India: Central India.
Agathia incudaria antitheta Prout, 1932. India: Sikkim, 1300-2000ft.
Agathia lactala Herbulot, 1977. India: Andaman.
Agathia laetata (Fabricius, 1794). India: Andaman Island, Cherrapunji, Meghalaya.
Agathia laetata andamanensis Prout, 1932.
Agathia laetata isogyna Prout, 1916.
Agathia laqueifera Prout, 1912. India: Upper Assam, Digboi.
Agathia lycaenaria (Kollar, 1844). India: Himalayas, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.
Agathia lycaenaria impar Prout, 1916. India: South India, Belgaum, Karnataka, Travancore, Kerala.
Agathia magnifica Moore, 1879. Sri Lanka; India: Indian Himalaya.
Agathia microlaetata Goyal, Kirti & Saxena, 2018. India: Jog falls, Karnataka.
Agathia quinaria Moore, 1868. India: Bengal.
Agathia solaria Swinhoe, 1905. India: NE Himalaya.
Agathia visenda Butler, 1880. India: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Agathia visenda gaudens Prout, 1932.
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| West Bengal | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Agathia lycaenaria (Kollar, 1848) - Carissa spinarum, Holarrhena pubescens, Marsdenia sp., Nerium oleander, Tabernaemontana divaricata, Tabernaemontana alternifolia, Trachelospermum sp. (Apocynaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- 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. 485, # 4044.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 59/4.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 97/6.
- Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Image 61.
Page citation
Arnab Kumar Samanta 2024. Agathia lycaenaria (Kollar, 1848) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/agathia-lycaenaria, accessed 2024/04/20.