Taxonomic Information
Timandra Duponchel, 1829 species known from India.
Timandra amataria griseata (Petersen, 1902).
Timandra comptaria Walker, 1863. India.
Timandra convectaria convectaria Walker, 1861. Bangladesh( TL: Sylhet); India: Himachal Pradesh (Shimla, Nauni, Subathu), Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Uttarakhand.
Timandra correspondens (Hampson, 1895). India: Himachal Pradesh (Dharamsala), Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal, Nagaland; Nepal.
Timandra nelsoni Prout, 1918. South India; Sri Lanka.
Timandra obsoleta Warren, 1897. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Timandra responsaria responsaria Moore, 1888.India: Meghalaya (Cherrapunji); Nilgiris.
Timandra ruptilinea Warren, 1897. India: E. Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similar species:
Timandra griseata, Timandra comptaria, Timandra ruptilinea has FW postmedial line arising from apex.
Timandra correspondens, Timandra convectaria has FW postmedial line arising from below apex.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
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| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
- OD: Timandra convectaria Walker, 1861. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum 23:800. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122745#page/326/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae, pg 458, # 3969 as form of T. amataria.
- Prout, 1938. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.). Macro. Lep. World, 12:153, pl. 16f.
- Cui, L., Xue, D. and Jiang, N., 2019. A review of Timandra Duponchel, 1829 from China, with description of seven new species (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). ZooKeys, 829, p.43. Fig. 7.
- jpmoth.org http://www.jpmoth.org/Geometridae/Sterrhinae/Timandra_convectaria.html [accessed 22 October 2016]
- Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P. D. N. 2007. BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (website). http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=535148 [accessed 22 October 2016]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Timandra convectaria Walker, 1861 – . 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/timandra-convectaria, accessed 2025/11/10.


