Taxonomic Information
Nycteola Hübner, 1822 species known from India.
Nycteola indica (Felder, 1874). Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India.
Nycteola indicatana (Walker, 1863). Sri Lanka; Indian Subregion, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu.
Nycteola fasciosa (Moore, 1888). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Nycteola mesoplaga (Hampson, 1905). India: West Bengal, Sikkim.
Nycteola metaspilella (Walker, 1866). India: Nilgiris.
Nycteola nolalella (Walker, 1866). Indo-Australian tropics; India: West Bengal.
Nycteola poliophaea (Hampson, 1907). Sri Lanka; India: Assam.
Nycteola revayana (Scopoli, 1772). India: Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Nilgiris, Odisha.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 |
- OD: Sarrothripa mesoplaga Hampson, 1905. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 16: 584. TL: Singapore. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63348#page/624/mode/1up
- Kononenko, V.S. & Pinratana, A. 2013. Moths of Thailand. Vol. 3. Part 2. Noctuoidea. An illustrated Catalogue of Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) in Thailand. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok, 625 pp.pg. 193, Pl. 26/26.
- Joshi, R., Singh, N. and Kuni, N., 2021. A catalogue of Nolidae Bruand, 1846 from India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5034(1), pp.1-112. Image 26.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-18/sarrothripini/sarrothripini_7_4.php
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/775255-Nycteola-mesoplaga
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Nycteola mesoplaga (Hampson, 1905) – . 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/nycteola-mesoplaga, accessed 2025/11/12.