Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852 -

Taxonomic Information

Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 species known from India. 
Acontia costistigma Walker, [1858]. N. India. 
Acontia deceptrix (Warren, 1913). India: TL: Travancore. 
Acontia erronea Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger, 2008. Sri Lanka (TL: Mambantota). 
Acontia notabilis (Walker, 1857). India: Punjab, Delhi. 
Acontia olivacea (Hampson, 1891). India: India: Tamil Nadu (TL: Nilgiris).
Acontia rufitincta (Hampson, 1910). India: Tamil Nadu (TL: “Madras”), Andhra Pradesh. 
Acontia marmoralis (Fabricius, 1794). India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chandigarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand.
Acontia hemiglauca (Hampson, 1910). India: Tamil Nadu (TL: Nilgiris). 
Acontia catenula (Walker, 1865). India: Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi. 
Acontia lucida (Hufnagel, 1766). India: Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, 
Acontia nitidula (Fabricius, 1787). India: Maharashtra. 
Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852. India: Tamil Nadu (TL: "Cote de Coromandel"), Delhi. 
Acontia crocata Guenée, 1852. India: “N. India”, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu. 
Acontia upsilon (Walker, 1865). India: S. India (TL: “Deccan”). 
Acontia sexpunctata (Fabricius, 1794). India: Delhi. 

Needs verification. 
Acontia transversa Guenée, 1852 
Acontia intersepta Guenée, 1852 
Acontia graellsii Feisth, 1837

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Acontia opalinoides -


StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu111
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total111
Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852: Gossypium spp., Abutilon spp. (Malvaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010). 
  1. Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852. Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 6 (Noct. 2): 219; TL: "Cote de Coromandel”. Text at https://archive.org/stream/histoirenaturell06bois#page/219/mode/1up
  2. Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. pg 311, #2020 as Tarache opalinoides.
  3. Seitz, A. (Ed.), 1912. The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Vol 11, pg. 305, & Plate. 27f.
  4. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=192417 [accessed 03 January 2021]
  5. https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/NOCTUIIDAE/ACONTIINAE/acontia%20opalinoides.htm

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Acontia opalinoides Guenée, 1852 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/acontia-opalinoides, accessed 2025/08/23.