Taxonomic Information
Antoculeora species known from India and Nepal.
Antoculeora locuples (Oberthür, 1881)
Antoculeora ornatissima (Walker, 1858)
Antoculeora yoshimotoi (Ronkay, 1997
Both Antoculeora locuples (Oberthür, 1881) and Antoculeora ornatissima (Walker, 1858) occur sympatrically in Nepal and are best separated by comparing genitalia.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Similar species: Antoculeora locuples (Oberthür, 1881)
- Plusia locuples Oberthür, 1880. Étud. d'Ent. 5: 85, pl. 9, f. 3; TL: Askold I. Plate at https://archive.org/details/tudesdentomolo05ober/page/n111/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 157/7.
Both Antoculeora locuples (Oberthür, 1881) and Antoculeora ornatissima (Walker, 1858) occur sympatrically in Nepal and are best separated by comparing genitalia.
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| Total | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Plusia ornatissima Walker, 1858. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 15: 1786; TL: North Hindostan. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1315brit/page/1786/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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 572, # 2674 as Plusia ornatissima.
- Phytometra ornatissima Walker In: Hampson, G. F. 1913. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, Vol. 13, pg. 515, #8341. Lists Plusia locuples as synonym.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 44/4.
- Chou, I. & Lu,T. 1978. Studies on the Chinese Plusiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Acta ent. Sinica 21 (1) : 63-78.
- Sinha, T., Shashank, P.R. and Chattopadhyay, P.C., 2018. DNA barcoding and morphological characterization of moth Antoculeora ornatissima (Walker, 1858) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), a new range record from western Himalayan region of India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10(13), pp.12817-12820.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=370755
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Antoculeora ornatissima (Walker, 1858) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/antoculeora-ornatissima, accessed 2024/09/07.