Taxonomic Information
Similiar species:
Separated from L. multistriata by presence of brown discocellular spot, outlined by white (versus black-centered discocellular spot in multistriata). L. multistriata has three triangular-shaped spots at dorsum below tornus on forewing, while porphyriata has three curved bands.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Lobogonodes porphyriata -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 |
- Eustroma porphyriata Moore, 1888. Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (3): 276. TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal. Text at https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/276/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs.Pg. 360, # 3663 as Cidaria porphyriata.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 99/12 Microlygris porphyriata.
- Wu, S. and Chang, W.C., 2018. Revising the generic characters of Lobogonodes Bastelberger, 1909, with description of a new species from Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae). Zootaxa, 4433(3), pp.434-444.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lobogonodes porphyriata (Moore, 1888) – . 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/lobogonodes-porphyriata, accessed 2025/10/27.