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 Not peer reviewed.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: Pachyodes erionoma Swinhoe, 1893. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6), 12: 219.
- 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. 475, # 4008.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 2/14 as Pachyodes erionoma.
- Sondhi, Y. & S. Sondhi. 2016. A partial checklist of moths (Lepidoptera) of Dehradun, Mussoorie and Devalsari in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(5): 8756–8776; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2814.8.5.8756-8776. [accessed 08 August 2021] Image 60 as Pachyodes erionoma.
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_11_6.php [accessed 07 January 2020]
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/85_GEOMETROIDEA/04_GEOMETRIDAE/07_Geometrinae/11_Lophophelma/Lophophelma%20erionoma/Lophophelma%20erionoma.htm [accessed 07 January 2020]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/16064293
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lophophelma erionoma (Swinhoe, 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/lophophelma-erionoma, accessed 2025/10/25.