Taxonomic Information
Mosopia (Walker, [1866] species known from India.
Mosopia magniplaga (Swinhoe, 1905). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills), West Bengal, Sikkim.
Mosopia kononenkoi Holloway, 2008. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Mosopia megaspila Walker, [1866]. India: Nagaland, Sikkim.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 |
- Mosopia megaspila Walker, [1866] 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 34: 1188. TL: Penang. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38918249#page/494/mode/1up
- Lödl, M., 2002. Notes on the genus Mosopia Walker ,[1866] 1865 with redescription of the type species M. megaspila Walker,[1866] 1865 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Herminiinae). Quadrifina, 5, pp.21-26. Fig. 10 for Mosopia magniplaga and Fig. 1-3 for Mosopia megaspila.
- Joshi, R., Zahiri, R., Banerjee, D. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5635(1), pp.1-247. Lists from Nagaland.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-17/herminiinae/herminiinae_4_1.php
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/494152-Mosopia-megaspila
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Mosopia megaspila Walker, [1866] – . 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/mosopia-megaspila, accessed 2025/11/13.