Taxonomic Information
Parapercnia Wehrli, 1939 species known from India and Sri Lanka.
Parapercnia caritaria (Walker, 1860). Sri Lanka.
Parapercnia diurnaria (Guenée,1858). India: S. India.
Parapercnia cordularia (Swinhoe, 1893). India; Nepal.
Parapercnia herbidaria (Guenée, 1857). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills); Nepal.
Parapercnia irrorataria (Bremer & Grey, 1853). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills). Parapercnia lectularia (Swinhoe,1891)
is a synonym.
Parapercnia pertusaria (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling). India; Nepal.
Parapercnia striatifera Hampson,1902 . India: S. India (TL: Travancore).
Parapercnia sinensium (Oberthür, 1913). India.
Parapercnia xanthypochlora (Wehrli, 1924). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Parapercnia kalakadaria (Sato, 2014). S. & W. India.
Ophthalmitis Fletcher, 1979 is considered a junior subjective synonym of Parapercnia Wehrli, 1939 (Murillo-Ramos et al, 2021).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Ophthalmitis herbidaria (Guenée, 1858): Casearia sp. (Salicaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Ophthalmodes herbidaria Guenée, 1858, In Boisduval & Guenée, Hist. nat. Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.), 9: 283. Syntypes 1m, 1f, India (central). (BMNH).
- 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. 255, Fig. 3375.
- Jiang, N., D. Xue & H. Han. 2011. A review of Ophthalmitis Fletcher, 1979 in China, with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae). Zootaxa 2735: 1-22. Pg. 11-12, Fig. 19-22.
- Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Image 177.
- Murillo-Ramos, L., Chazot, N., Sihvonen, P., Ounap, E., Jiang, N., Han, H., Clarke, J.T., Davis, R.B., Tammaru, T. and Wahlberg, N., 2021. Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography and diversification patterns of a diverse group of moths (Geometridae: Boarmiini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 162, p.107198.
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Parapercnia herbidaria (Guenée, [1858]) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.2. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/parapercnia-herbidaria, accessed 2026/04/13.