Taxonomic Information
Lygniodes Guenée, 1852 species known from India.
Lygniodes ciliata Moore, 1867. India: Bengal (TL).
Lygniodes endoleucus (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]). NE Himalaya; Myanamar.
Lygniodes hypoleuca Guenée, 1852. Bangladesh (Sylhet: TL); India: Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh; Nagaland, Manipur; Nepal.
Lygniodes vampyurs (Fabricius, 1794). S. India; Sri Lanka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
- OD: Lygniodes hypoleuca Guenée, 1852; In: Boisduval and Guenée. Hist. nat. Insectes (Lepid). 7:125. Pl 16: 5 (TL: Sylhet, Bangaldesh).
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg. 463, # 2411. Listed as Agonista hypoleuca.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 88/1-2.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Pl. 29/2-6, Pg. 104.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/02_EREBIDAE/15_EREBINAE/014_Lygniodes/Lygniodes%20hypoleuca/Lygniodes%20hypoleuca.htm [accessed 15 November 2017].
- http://insecta.pro/taxonomy/120586 [accessed 15 November 2017].
Note: This genus displays sexual dimorphism. Females of hypoleuca and endoleucus are difficult to separate. Underside of wings support identification in both sexes.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lygniodes hypoleuca Guenée, 1852 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/lygniodes-hypoleuca, accessed 2025/04/30.