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Similar species: Nycteola mesoplaga (Hampson, 1905).
From MOB: This species (mesoplaga) and the next (indicatana) (previously placed in Symitha) have a rather similar forewing pattern with a dark subbasal bar and central triangle on the costa amid otherwise irregularly transverse dark grey fasciation on a pale grey ground. The subbasal bar in mesoplaga is well basal to the antemedial, which is transverse, rather than longer and more oblique around the antemedial. Also, mesoplaga is much larger, and has grey shading between the fasciae broadly along the dorsum.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Goa | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 |
- Tortrix indicatana Walker, 1863; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 28: 333. Ext at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso2728brit/page/333/mode/1up
- Subrita? parvella Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 35: 1747. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso35brit/page/1747/mode/1up
- Gyrtothripa microdonta Hampson, 1912, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus., 11: 449, Pl. 186/13. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid11brituoft/page/449/mode/1up.
- Symitha indicatana ferrugana Fletcher, 1957, Nat. Hist. Rennell Island, 2: 44. Plate at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid02briti/page/n59/mode/2up
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/species/nycteola-indicatana
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/371549-Nycteola-indicatana
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Nycteola indicatana (Walker, 1863) – . 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-indicatana, accessed 2025/11/12.