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Tortriciforma viridipuncta -
Similar species: Tortriciforma chloroplaga Hampson, 1905.
Tortriciforma chloroplaga has a much larger green marking on the FW costa.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-18/chloephorini/chloephorini_4_1.php
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/700915-Tortriciforma-chloroplaga
MOT Vol 3, Part 2. Pl. 27/8.
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- OD: Tortriciforma viridipuncta Hampson, 1894. 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. 425, # 2342, Fig. 240. TL: Sikkim.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 43/22.
- 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 243.
- Joshi, R., Singh, N. and Kuni, N., 2021. A catalogue of Nolidae Bruand, 1846 from India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5034(1), pp.1-112. Fig. 31.
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Tortriciforma viridipuncta Hampson, 1894 – . 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/Tortriciforma-viridipuncta, accessed 2026/01/31.