Alompra roepkei Tams, 1953 -

Taxonomic Information

Alompra Moore, 1872 
species known from India (based on Joshi et al 2023).
Alompra ferruginea (Moore, 1872). Myanmar; Nepal;India: Meghalaya (Cherrapunji), West Bengal (Darjeeling), Sikkim, North East Himalaya.
Alompra roepkei (Tams, 1953). Bhutan; India: Assam, North East Himalaya, Central Himalaya, North-western Himalaya.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Alompra roepkei -


Similar species: Alompra ferruginea has the termen convex distally, not concave.

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland1
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura1
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total111
  1. Holloway, J. D. 1987. The Moths of Borneo. Part 3. Superfamily Bombycoidea: families Lasiocampidae, Eupterotidae, Bombycidae, Brahmaeidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae. http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-3/lasiocampidae/lasiocampidae_17_1.php [accessed 13 May 2016]
  2. Wu, S., Lee, H. and Zolotuhin, V.V., 2017. Review of the Alompra ferruginea Moore, 1872 complex with description of a new species from Taiwan (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae). Zootaxa, 4247(2), pp.149-156.

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Alompra roepkei Tams, 1953 – . 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/alompra-roepkei, accessed 2024/04/18.