Taxonomic Information
Noctuides species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Noctuides melanophia Staudinger, 1892. India: Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya; Sri Lanka; Bhutan.
Noctuides thurivora (Meyrick, 1932) (Anartula). Sri Lanka
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Noctuides melanophia Staudinger, 1892. Lepidopteren aus Tunis. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris, 5, 277 – 300 : 466.
- Balanotis euryptera, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1894b: 476. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14681122#page/518/mode/1up
- Parorthaga euryptera Meyrick; Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs.pg. 111, #4436 and fig 65. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124944#page/142/mode/1up
- Tanagal, V., Murthy, M.S. and Reddy, P.M., 2023. A checklist of Indian Epipaschiinae (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Pyralidae). Entomon, 48(1): 51-62. Lists distribution as Kerala.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/Pyralidae/Epipaschiinae/Noctuides_melanophia.html
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1336517-Noctuides-melanophia
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Noctuides melanophia Staudinger, 1892 – . 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/noctuides-melanophia, accessed 2025/11/03.