Taxonomic Information
Heterostegane Hampson, 1893 known species from India.
Heterostegane aurantiaca Warren, 1894. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Heterostegane bilineata (Butler, 1883). India: Madhya Pradesh (Assirghur,).
Heterostegane lala (Swinhoe, 1892). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Heterostegane maculifascia (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris.
Heterostegane rectifascia (Hampson, 1893). India: Nagaland; Sri Lanka.
Heterostegane subfasciata Warren, 1899. India: NE Himalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Heterostegane subtessellata (Walker, 1863). India; Nepal; Myanmar.
Heterostegane tritocampsis (Prout, 1934). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala; Sri Lanka.
Heterostegane urbica (Swinhoe, 1886). India: Uttarakhand, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra,; Sri Lanka; Myanmar.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
Heterostegane urbica (Swinhoe, 1885) - Acacia pennata (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Asthena urbica Swinhoe, 1885. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1885: 859.
- 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. 166, # 3137 as Stegana urbica.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 69/14.
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (insecta : lepidoptera) of Hong Kong. Pl. 22/34.
- Sondhi, Y. & S. Sondhi. 2016. A partial checklist of moths (Lepidoptera) of Dehradun, Mussoorie and Devalsari in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(5): 8756–8776; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2814.8.5.8756-8776. Image 46.
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-11/Cassymini/cassymini_7_6.php.
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Heterostegane urbica (Swinhoe, 1885) – . 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/heterostegane-urbica, accessed 2026/03/25.