Moth Taxon Search
Emmelia lunana
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SS: Emmelia lunana (Fabricius, 1794)
Pyralis lunana Fabricius, 1794; Ent. Syst. 3 (2): 243; TL: India Orientali. Text at https://archive.org/details/entomologiasyst3fabr/page/243/mode/1up?view=theater (in French).
Acontia olivea Guenée, 1852; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 6 (Noct. 2): 217; TL: East Indies. Text at https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell06boi/page/217/mode/1up?view=theater (in French).
Tarache nivosa Swinhoe, 1886; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1886 (4): 446, pl. 41, f. 14; TL: India, Mhow. Text at
https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen86busi/page/446/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen86busi/page/n527/mode/1up?view=theater
Tarache olivea; FBI, Hampson, Vol. 2, pg. 313, # 2027.
Seitz, A. (Ed.). Macro Lep. World. Vol. 11, Pl. 27a. I cannot find any text for this.
Lepindex lists this as Hoplotarache lunana Fabricius, 1794.
Komal, J., Shashank, P.R., Sondhi, S., Madan, S., Sondhi, Y., Meshram, N.M. and Anooj, S.S., 2021. Moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of Delhi, India: An illustrated checklist based on museum specimens and surveys. Biodiversity Data Journal, 9. Lists a record of Emmelia lunana from Delhi.
Singh, A. P. & Lekhendra. 2022. Moths (Lepidoptera : Heterocera) of New Forest Campus, Dehradun, India, Indian Forester 148 (6) : 632-643. Lists a historical record of Emmelia lunana from Dehradun.
Hacker, H.H., Legrain, A., Fibiger, M. and Peks, H., 2008. Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenée, 1841 (Old World)(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae). Esperiana, 14, pp.7-533. Funet mentions with ref to this paper that this species is part of the Acontia natalis group (African species).
See at https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/696656-Acontia-natalis
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1284020-Acontia-lunana iNat lists this as Acontia lunana. But I find no mention of lunana in Hacker et al 2008, so genus placement is still open. It does look like an Acontia though!
JD : agree with ID, until correct genus placement is finalised. provisionally we may keep it as Emmelia. If not Acontia, definitely within Acontiinae. Text for Seitz is on page 299, Hoplotarache lunana
Pyralis lunana Fabricius, 1794; Ent. Syst. 3 (2): 243; TL: India Orientali. Text at https://archive.org/details/entomologiasyst3fabr/page/243/mode/1up?view=theater (in French).
Acontia olivea Guenée, 1852; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 6 (Noct. 2): 217; TL: East Indies. Text at https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell06boi/page/217/mode/1up?view=theater (in French).
Tarache nivosa Swinhoe, 1886; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1886 (4): 446, pl. 41, f. 14; TL: India, Mhow. Text at
https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen86busi/page/446/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen86busi/page/n527/mode/1up?view=theater
Tarache olivea; FBI, Hampson, Vol. 2, pg. 313, # 2027.
Seitz, A. (Ed.). Macro Lep. World. Vol. 11, Pl. 27a. I cannot find any text for this.
Lepindex lists this as Hoplotarache lunana Fabricius, 1794.
Komal, J., Shashank, P.R., Sondhi, S., Madan, S., Sondhi, Y., Meshram, N.M. and Anooj, S.S., 2021. Moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of Delhi, India: An illustrated checklist based on museum specimens and surveys. Biodiversity Data Journal, 9. Lists a record of Emmelia lunana from Delhi.
Singh, A. P. & Lekhendra. 2022. Moths (Lepidoptera : Heterocera) of New Forest Campus, Dehradun, India, Indian Forester 148 (6) : 632-643. Lists a historical record of Emmelia lunana from Dehradun.
Hacker, H.H., Legrain, A., Fibiger, M. and Peks, H., 2008. Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenée, 1841 (Old World)(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae). Esperiana, 14, pp.7-533. Funet mentions with ref to this paper that this species is part of the Acontia natalis group (African species).
See at https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/696656-Acontia-natalis
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1284020-Acontia-lunana iNat lists this as Acontia lunana. But I find no mention of lunana in Hacker et al 2008, so genus placement is still open. It does look like an Acontia though!
JD : agree with ID, until correct genus placement is finalised. provisionally we may keep it as Emmelia. If not Acontia, definitely within Acontiinae. Text for Seitz is on page 299, Hoplotarache lunana
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