Subspecies in India
Has a greenish form and a whitish form.
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 Not peer reviewed.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.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Terpna iterans Prout 1926. Nov. Zool. Vol. 33/2. TL: Shanghai. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3249506#page/22/mode/1up.
- Terpna iterans Prout 1926. Seitz Macro. Lep. Supl. 4, 6. Pl 1f. 1934.
- Pitkin,L. M, H. Han & S. James. 2007. Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007,150, 343–412. With 162 figures.
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Image 388.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lophophelma iterans (Prout, 1926) – . 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/lophophelma-iterans, accessed 2025/08/17.