Taxonomic Information
Parapercnia Wehrli, 1939 species known from India and Sri Lanka.
Parapercnia caritaria (Walker, 1860). Sri Lanka.
Parapercnia diurnaria (Guenée,1858). India: S. India.
Parapercnia cordularia (Swinhoe, 1893). India; Nepal.
Parapercnia herbidaria (Guenée, 1857). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills); Nepal.
Parapercnia irrorataria (Bremer & Grey, 1853). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills). Parapercnia lectularia (Swinhoe,1891)
is a synonym.
Parapercnia pertusaria (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling). India; Nepal.
Parapercnia striatifera Hampson,1902 . India: S. India (TL: Travancore).
Parapercnia sinensium (Oberthür, 1913). India.
Parapercnia xanthypochlora (Wehrli, 1924). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Parapercnia kalakadaria (Sato, 2014). S. & W. India.
Ophthalmitis Fletcher, 1979 is considered a junior subjective synonym of Parapercnia Wehrli, 1939 (Murillo-Ramos et al, 2021).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- OD: Boarmia xanthypochlora Wehrli, 1924. Mitt. münch. ent. Ges., 14 (6–12): 140, pl. 1, fig. 24. Holotype (ZFMK). China: Lienping.
- Jiang, Nan, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2011. A review of Ophthalmitis Fletcher, 1979 in China, with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae), Zootaxa 2735, pp. 1-22: 19-21. Fig. 43-44.
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Image 323.
- Murillo-Ramos, L., Chazot, N., Sihvonen, P., Ounap, E., Jiang, N., Han, H., Clarke, J.T., Davis, R.B., Tammaru, T. and Wahlberg, N., 2021. Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography and diversification patterns of a diverse group of moths (Geometridae: Boarmiini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 162, p.107198.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/715227-Ophthalmitis-xanthypochlora
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Parapercnia xanthypochlora (Wehrli, 1924) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.2. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/index.php/parapercnia-xanthypochlora, accessed 2026/04/13.