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
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Gujarat | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Total | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
- Acontia crocata Guenée, 1852. in Boisduval & Guenée, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptéres 5: 218. TL: N. India for female. Text at https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell06bois/page/218/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G.F. 1910. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
- Noctuidæ, Volume X (1910), Plate CLXXII, fig. 15. Plate at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/101444#page/539/mode/1up as Tarache crocata.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pl. 36/38-39 for male & female.
- 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. 314, # 2033 as Tarache crocata.
- Gurule, S & S. M. Nikam. 2013. The moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of northern Maharashtra: a preliminary checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(12): 4693–4713; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2555.4693-713.Image. [accessed 23 May 2021] 228 for female.
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/acon/crocata.html [accessed 23 May 2021]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Acontia crocata 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-crocata, accessed 2025/08/15.