Taxonomic Information
Biston Leach, 1815 species known from India.
Biston bengaliaria (Guenee, [1858]).India: Uttarakhand east to Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Biston betularia cognataria (Guenée, [1858]). India: Western Himalaya, Solan, Simla, Kharapathar, Sarahan, Himachal Pradesh.
Biston contectaria Walker, 1863. India: Canara, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim.
Biston falcata (Warren, 1893). India: Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal. Species complex.
Biston mediolata Jiang, Xue & Han, 2011. India: Mizoram.
Biston panterianaria (Bremer & Grey, 1853). India: West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Biston porphyria (Butler, 1889). India: Kangara district, Himachal Pradesh.
Biston regalis (Moore, 1888). India: Himalaya, West Bengal, Meghalaya; Nepal.
Biston sinuata Hampson, 1895. India: Sikkim.
Biston strigaria (Moore, 1879). India: Tamil Nadu, Kerala; Sri Lanka.
Biston suppressaria (Guenee, [1858]). India; Nepal.
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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| Assam | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Goa | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 1 | 9 | |||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
Biston suppressaria (Guenée, 1857) – Tea Looper: Acacia catechu, Acacia modesta, Bauhinia variegata, Senna auriculata (Fabaceae), Vernicia montana (Euphorbiaceae), Bombax ceiba (Malvaceae), Camellia sinensis (Theaceae), Carissa carandas (Apocynaceae), Syzygium cumini (Myrtaceae), Lagerstroemia indica (Lythraceae), Litsea monopetala (Lauraceae),Toona ciliata (Meliaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Amphidasys suppressaria Guenée, [1858]. Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 9: 210, Atlas (Uranides & Phalenides): pl. 4, f. 2. Text at https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell09bois/page/210/mode/1up?view=theater
- Han, H, Jiang, N., Xue, D. 2011. A review of Biston Leach, 1815 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae) from China, with description of one new species. ZooKeys 139: 45-96. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.139.1308. Fig 31-40.
- Jiang, N., Li, X., Hausmann, A., Cheng, R., Xue, D. & H. Han. 2017. A molecular phylogeny of the Palaearctic and Oriental members of the tribe Boarmiini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae). Invertebrate Systematics, 31(4), pp.427-441. For tribal placement in Boarmiini.
- Murillo-Ramos, L., Brehm, G., Sihvonen, P., Hausmann, A., Holm, S., Ghanavi, H.R., Õunap, E., Truuverk, A., Staude, H., Friedrich, E. & Tammaru, T., 2019. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies. PeerJ, 7, p.e7386. For tribal placement in Boarmiini.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/237825-Biston-suppressaria
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Biston suppressaria (Guenée, [1858]) – Tea Looper. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.91. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/biston-suppressaria, accessed 2025/06/24.