Taxonomic Information
Acantholipes Lederer, 1857 known from India and Nepal.
Acantholipes circumdata (Walker, 1858). India (Maharashtra).
Acantholipes hypenoides Moore, 1881. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh.
Acantholipes regularis (Hübner, [1813]). Nepal.
Acantholipes trajecta (Walker, 1865). India; Sri Lanka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- OD: Euclidia trajecta Walker, 1865. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 33: 986. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/986/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.pg. 520, # 2554. Listed as Acantholipes trajectus.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 261 pp. + 45 pls. Pg. 63, Pl. 15/46.
- http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Acantholipes_Trajecta_En [accessed 07 June 2021]
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/trajecta.html [accessed 07 June 2021]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/635463-Acantholipes-trajecta
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=283187 [accessed 07 June 2021]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Acantholipes trajecta (Walker, 1865) – . 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/acantholipes-trajecta, accessed 2025/11/06.