Taxonomic Information
Herochroma Swinhoe, 1893 species known from India.
Herochroma baba Swinhoe, 1893. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Herochroma baibarana baibarana (Matsumura, 1931). India: NE Himalaya, Assam, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Herochroma orientalis (Holloway, 1982). NE Himalaya; Sri Lanka is its synonym.
Herochroma cristata (Warren, 1894). India: Sikkim, Assam, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu.
Herochroma subspoliata (Prout, 1916). India: Nilgiris (TL), Tamil Nadu, Kerala.
Herochroma elaearia (Hampson, 1903). India: Sikkim, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh.
Herochroma farinosa (Warren, 1893), NW Himalayas, Lahoul.
Herochroma flavitincta (Warren, 1897). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Herochroma liliana (Swinhoe, 1892). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Herochroma ochreipicta (Swinhoe, 1905). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills), Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Herochroma subtepens (Walker, 1860). India: Sikkim, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Herochroma usneata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875). India: Himalayas, Uttarakhand.
Herochroma viridaria (Moore, 1868). India: West Bengal.
Herochroma yazakii Inoue, 1999. Nepal [Godavari]; India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Herochroma costata Kirti, Goyal & Kaur, 2012. Karnataka. This species name is thus considered a nomen nudum (Plotkin & Kawahara, 2020).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Similar species to H. usneata are 1. Herochroma viridaria ssp. peparata (Herbulot, 1989), which has a black band UNF/UNH. See Plate 5/10-11 in Geometrinae of China, Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 54: Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae.
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- Scotopteryx usneata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875. Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (5): pl. 125, f. 12; TL: China; Himalaya, Chini. Plate at https://archive.org/details/umdieerdeindenja03akad/page/n336/mode/1up?view=theater.
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg. 479, # 4026 as Pseudoterpna usneata.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 2/8.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 5.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Herochroma usneata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) – . 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/herochroma-usneata, accessed 2025/11/04.