Taxonomic Information
Diomea Walker [858] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Diomea eupsema Swinhoe, 1902. Myanmar.
Diomea ferrosticta Yoshimoto, 2001. Myanmar.
Diomea orbifera (Walker, 1862). N. India.
Diomea lignicolora Walker, [1858]. TL: Sri Lanka; India: Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Kerala.
Diomea livida Hampson, 1902. India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Simla); Nepal.
Diomea pagana (Swinhoe, 1901). India: Meghalaya (TL: Jaintia Hills).
Diomea rotundata Walker, [1858]. India; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Diomea suvarnadvipae Kobes, 1983 is considered a junior synonym of D. lignicolora.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Diomea orbifera -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 |
- Zigera orbifera Walker, 1862. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 6: 182; TL: Borneo, Sarawak. Text at https://archive.org/details/journalofproceed06linn/page/182/mode/1up?view=theater
- Zigera lichenosa Hampson, 1898, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc., 11: 460, syn. n.
- 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. 62, Pl. 15: 35 as Corsa orbifera.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pg. 73, pl. 9/1.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/boletobiini/boletobiini_4_8.php
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/906086-Diomea-orbifera
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Diomea orbifera (Walker, 1862) – . 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/Diomea-orbifera, accessed 2025/11/11.