Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Lantanophaga pusillidactylus - Lantana Plume Moth
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
- Oxyptilus pusillidactylus Walker, 1864. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 30: 933. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso2930brit/page/933/mode/1up?view=theater
- Platyptilia tecnidion Zeller, 1877. Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 13: 468, f. 162. Text at https://archive.org/details/trudyrusskagoent131877russ/page/468/mode/1up?view=theater (in Russian).
- Platyptilia hemimetra Meyrick, 1886. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1886 (1): 18. Text at https://archive.org/details/transactionsofen1886roya/page/18/mode/1up?view=theater
- Platyptilia lantana Busck, 1914. Insec. Ins. Mentsr. 2: 103. Text at https://archive.org/details/insecutorinsciti12191314wash/page/103/mode/1up?view=theater
- http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/MICRO'S/Pterophoridae/Lantanophaga%20pusillidactylus.html
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/pter/pusillidactylus.html
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/311417-Lantanophaga-pusillidactylus
Notes: Similar species: Lantanophaga anellatus Rose & Pooni, 2005. Known only from type locality (Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh). Best separated by male genitalia, hence cf.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864) – Lantana Plume Moth. 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/lantanophaga-pusillidactylus, accessed 2025/11/12.