Agnibesa pictaria (Moore, [1868]) -

Subspecies in India

Agnibesa pictaria pictaria (Moore, [1868]).
Agnibesa recurvilineata recurvilineata Moore, 1888

Taxonomic Information

Agnibesa Moore, 1888 species known from India. 
Agnibesa pictaria (Moore, [1868]).India: Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand. 
Agnibesa plumbeolineata (Hampson, 1895). India: Sikkim.
Agnibesa recurvilineata Moore, 1888. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Agnibesa venusta Warren, 1897. India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Agnibesa pictaria -


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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh1
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim1
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal1
Total112
  1. Somatina pictaria Moore, [1868]. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. pg. 645. TL: Darjeeling. 
  2. 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 415, # 3830.
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl 6/35. 
  4. Xue, D. and Scoble, M.J., 2002. A review of the genera associated with the tribe Asthenini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Entomology Series, 71(1), pp.77-133. Fig. 69. 
  5. Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P. D. N. 2007. BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (website). http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=274529 [accessed 20 Sep 2016]
  6. Wikispecies contributors. Asthenini [Internet]. Wikispecies, ; 2013 Aug 9, 14:00 UTC [cited 2016 Sep 20]. Available from: https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asthenini&oldid=1784998.
  7. Wikipedia contributors. Agnibesa pictaria [Internet]. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia; 2016 Feb 5, 12:12 UTC [cited 2016 Sep 20]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agnibesa_pictaria&oldid=703420264.

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Agnibesa pictaria (Moore, [1868]) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/index.php/agnibesa-pictaria, accessed 2025/08/10.