Biston falcata (Warren, 1893) -

Taxonomic Information

Biston Leach, 1815 species known from India. 
Biston bengaliaria (Guenee, [1858]).India: Uttarakhand east to Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Biston betularia cognataria (Guenée, [1858]). India: Western Himalaya, Solan, Simla, Kharapathar, Sarahan, Himachal Pradesh. 
Biston contectaria Walker, 1863. India: Canara, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim. 
Biston falcata (Warren, 1893). India: Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal. Species complex. 
Biston mediolata Jiang, Xue & Han, 2011. India: Mizoram. 
Biston panterianaria (Bremer & Grey, 1853). India: West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal. 
Biston porphyria (Butler, 1889). India: Kangara district, Himachal Pradesh. 
Biston regalis (Moore, 1888). India: Himalaya, West Bengal, Meghalaya; Nepal.
Biston sinuata Hampson, 1895. India: Sikkim. 
Biston strigaria (Moore, 1879). India: Tamil Nadu, Kerala; Sri Lanka. 
Biston suppressaria (Guenee, [1858]). India; Nepal.              

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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  1. OD: Eubyjodonta falcata Warren, 1893. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 (2): 416; TL: Sikkim. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen93scie/page/416/mode/1up?view=theater
  2. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl.70:14
  3. Han, H, Jiang, N., Xue, D. 2011. A review of Biston Leach, 1815 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae) from China, with description of one new species. ZooKeys 139: 45-96. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.139.1308
  4. Jiang, N., Li, X., Hausmann, A., Cheng, R., Xue, D. & H. Han. 2017. A molecular phylogeny of the Palaearctic and Oriental members of the tribe Boarmiini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae). Invertebrate Systematics, 31(4), pp.427-441. For tribal placement in Boarmiini. 
  5. Murillo-Ramos, L., Brehm, G., Sihvonen, P., Hausmann, A., Holm, S., Ghanavi, H.R., Õunap, E., Truuverk, A., Staude, H., Friedrich, E. & Tammaru, T., 2019. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies. PeerJ, 7, p.e7386. For tribal placement in Boarmiini. 

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Biston falcata (Warren, 1893) – . 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/biston-falcata, accessed 2025/10/25.