Taxonomic Information
Deuterocopus Zeller, 1851 species known from India.
Deuterocopus alopecodes Meyrick, 1911. India: Karnataka.
Deuterocopus atrapex Fletcher, 1909. India: Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka (TL).
Deuterocopus planeta Meyrick, 1907. India: Karnataka, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttarakhand; Myanmar; Sri Lanka.
Deuterocopus ritsemae Walsingham, 1884. India: Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra; Myanmar; Sri Lanka.
Deuterocopus socotranus Rebel, 1907. India; Myanmar; Sri Lanka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Deuterocopus ritsemae Walsingham, 1884. Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol, 6, pg. 243. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37327#page/257/mode/1up
- Deuterocopus ritsemae; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, Vol 58, On the genus Deuterocopus, Zeller, pg 134 & Pl. 14, figs 11 & 12 (has keys on pg 112). Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14720329#page/494/mode/1up. Plate at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14720329#page/502/mode/1up
- Deuterocopus ritsemae; Microlepidoptera of New Guinea, Diakonoff (has keys on differences with planeta based on FW clefts). Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/210263#page/16/mode/1up
- Pathania, P.C., Gielis, C., Das, A. and Chandra, K., 2021. Catalogue of superfamily Pterophoroidea Kuznetsov & Stekolnikov (Lepidoptera) of India. Zootaxa, 4915(2), pp.201-236. pg 225. Text at https://zenodo.org/record/4454316#.Y438KH3P33g
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/517004-Deuterocopus-ritsemae
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Deuterocopus_ritsemae_specimen.jpg
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Deuterocopus ritsemae Walsingham, 1884 – . 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/index.php/deuterocopus-ritsemae, accessed 2025/11/12.