Taxonomic Information
Somatina Guenée, [1858] species known from India and Sri Lanka.
Somatina anthophilata Guenée, [1858]. India: Maharashtra (TL: Bombay), Kerala.
Somatina densifasciaria Inoue, 1992. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Somatina omicraria (Fabricius, 1798). TL: India. Sri Lanka, Kerala.
Somatina plynusaria (Walker, [1863]). Bangladesh (Sylhet); India: Uttar Pradesh (Varanasi), Kerala.
Somatina postlineata (Warren, 1899). India.
Somatina purpurascens Moore, [1887]. Sri Lanka; India: Kerala.
Somatina rosacea rosacea Swinhoe, 1894. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills),Kerala.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Somatina anthophilata Guenée, 1857. Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 10: 11. Text at https://archive.org/stream/histoirenaturell10bois#page/11/mode/1up
- 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. 464, #3982, Fig. 209.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 67/11.
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (Insecta : Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong. PhD Plates, Pl. 20/21.
- Sihvonen, P. 2005. Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 473–530. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x.
- http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Somatina_Anthophilata [accessed 17 August 2020]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/324609-Somatina-anthophilata
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Somatina anthophilata Guenée, [1858] – . 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/somatina-anthophilata, accessed 2025/11/03.