Taxonomic Information
Lophophelma Prout, 1912 species known from India and Sri Lanka.
Lophophelma costistrigaria (Moore, [1868]). West Bengal; Nepal.
Lophophelma erionoma (Swinhoe, 1893). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills), Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Lophophelma funebrosa (Warren, 1896). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Lophophelma harmenni Irungbam, 2023. India: India: Manipur (TL: Ukhrul district, Shirui Hills).
Lophophelma hunliensis. TL: Hunli, Arunachal Pradesh. Not peer reviewed. Needs validation.
Lophophelma iterans (Prout, 1926). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Lophophelma luteipes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Uttarakhand.
Lophophelma neonoma (Hampson, 1907). Sri Lanka.
Lophophelma ruficosta (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris, Kerala, Karnataka.
Lophophelma varicoloraria (Moore, [1868]). India: Bengal (TL), Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya.
Lophophelma vigens (Butler, 1880). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram.
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- OD: Hypochroma vigens Butler, 1880, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 6:127. TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal. Text at https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazineof561880lond/page/127/mode/1up?view=theater
- , pg 475, # 4010
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_11_1.php [accessed 10 February 2017]
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/85_GEOMETROIDEA/04_GEOMETRIDAE/07_Geometrinae/11_Lophophelma/Lophophelma%20vigens/Lophophelma%20vigens.htm [accessed 10 February 2017]
- Pitkin, Linda M. ; Hongxiang Han & Shayleen James, 2007. Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150: 343-412. fig.19
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=476447 [accessed 10 February 2017]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lophophelma vigens (Butler, 1880) – . 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/lophophelma-vigens, accessed 2025/10/28.