Taxonomic Information
Ghoria Moore,1878 species known from India and Nepal.
Ghoria albocinerea Moore, 1878.
Ghoria nepalica (Daniel, 1961). Nepal.
Ghoria nigripars (Walker, 1856).
Ghoria postfusca (Hampson, 1894).
Similar species (extralimital)
Ghoria collitoides Butler, 1885 is very similar to Ghoria postfusca with fuscous HW. Best separated by genitalia.
Ghoria gigantea (Oberthür, 1879)
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Ghoria albocinerea -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 |
- Ghoria albocinerea Moore, 1878; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878: 13, pl. 1, f. 10; TL: Darjiling. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen78zool/page/12/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen78zool/page/n41/mode/1up?view=theater
- Ghoria sericeipennis Moore, 1878; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878: 13; TL: Darjiling. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen78zool/page/13/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.# 1318/9, pg 69, 70.
- Cerny, K. & A. Pinratana. 2009. Moths of Thailand, Vol. 6, Arctiidae. 283 pp, # 246, pl 25/246.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 79/15.
- Dubatolov, V.V., Kishida, Y. and Wang, M., 2012. New records of lichen-moth from the Nanling Mts., Guangdong, South China, with descriptions of new genera and species (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). Tinea, 22(1), pp.25-52. Image 14.
- Volynkin, A.V., Saldaitis, A. and ČernÝ, K., 2020. Four new species and one new subspecies of the Ghoria albocinerea Moore, 1878 species-group from northern Indochina and China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini). Zootaxa, 4789(2), pp.575-588. Lists numerous similar extralimital species.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Ghoria albocinerea Moore, 1878 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.82. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/ghoria-albocinerea, accessed 2025/01/22.