Taxonomic Information
Callopistria Hübner, [1821] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Callopistria aethiops Butler, 1878. India: Sikkim, Nilgiris.
Callopistria albistrigoides Poole, 1989. Sri Lanka.
Callopistria callopistrioides (Moore, 1881). India: Uttarakhand, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills); Nepal.
Callopistria chlorocroa (Hampson, 1908). NE Himalaya.
Callopistria coelisigna Hampson, 1902. Sri Lanka.
Callopistria duplicans Walker, [1858]. India: Sikkim, Assam, Maharashtra. (Mumbai); Myanmar.
Callopistria exotica (Guenée, 1852). NE Himalaya.
Callopistria guttulalis Hampson, 1896 Sri Lanka; India: Tamil Nadu, Kerala.
Callopistria indica (Butler, 1891). India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Dharamsala), Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya, Karnataka, Maharashtra; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka.
Callopistria juventina (Stoll, [1782]). India: Meghalaya.
Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827). India: Himachal Pradesh; “ Nilgiris”, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Punjab.
Callopistria leucobasis (Hampson, 1908). India: Assam; Sri Lanka.
Callopistria maillardi maillardi (Guenée, 1862). India-Australian tropics; India: Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand.
Callopistria nivetacta (Warren, 1912). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Callopistria nephrostictoides Berio, 1973. Myanmar.
Callopistria minor Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris; Nepal.
Callopistria minuta Butler, 1889. India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Dharamsala), Uttarakhand, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Callopistria placodoides (Guenée, 1852). India-Australian tropics; India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Kerala.
Callopistria phaeogona (Hampson, 1908). India: Arunachal Pradesh?.
Callopistria pulchrilinea (Walker, 1862). India: Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Tripura; Sri Lanka; Nepal.
Callopistria rectisecta (Warren, 1912). India: Assam
Callopistria repleta Walker, [1858]. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West Bengal.
Callopistria rivularis Walker, [1858]. India: "N. India", Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand; Indo-Australian tropics.
Callopsitria strigilineata Hampson, 1894. India: Sikkim.
Callopistria thalpophiloides (Walker, 1862). India: Andaman Is., Karnataka; Sri Lanka.
Callopistria variegata (Swinhoe, 1895). India: Meghalaya.
Callopistria venata Leech, 1900. India: Meghalaya.
Callopistria yerburii Butler, 1884. India: Tamil Nadu (Madras); Sri Lanka.
Mosara apicalis Walker, 1855, placed by Holloway in Callopistria, was suggested as possibly retained as Mosara, placed in the subfamily Aediinae by Yen & Wu (2009).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Callopistria callopistrioides -
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Note: Both this (thalpophiloides) and the next species (callopistrioides) have rich dark brown forewings; the hindwings are bordered a similar colour but have the basal half dull yellow. The next species has the pale forewing markings more prominent and more clearly defined; the submarginal white flecks are much more extensive in callopistrioides; in thalpophiloides they are restricted to the anterior sixth of the wing.
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| Total | 1 |
- OD: Thalpophila callopistrioides Moore, 1881. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. Pg. 344. TL: Khasi Hills. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30759493#page/446/mode/1up
- Listed as Data similis Warren, 1911. Descriptions of some new Noctuidae in the Tring Museum. Novit. zool. 18: 140-148.
- Wileman & West, 1929. Descriptions of new species of Noctuidae Novit. Zool. 35(1):1-27. Page 5.
- Holloway, J. D. 1989. The moths of Borneo (part 12); Family Noctuidae: Subfamilies Noctuinae, Heliothinae, Hadeninae, Acronictinae, Amphipyrinae, Agaristinae. Malayan Nature Journal 43: 57-226. Pg. 161, Pl. 5/7
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Plate 86/9.
- Yen, S-H. & S. Wu. 2009. Hexapoda: Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Eriopinae), Biota Taiwanica : 3-88. Pg. 58. Misspelt as Callopistria callopistroides.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1284396-Data-callopistrioides [Accessed on 24 Nov 2022]
Similar species: Callopistria thalpophiloides
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Callopistria callopistrioides (Moore, 1881) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/callopistria-callopistrioides, accessed 2025/11/04.