Taxonomic Information
Tympanistes Moore, 1867 species known from India.
Tympanistes testacea Moore, 1867. India: West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal.
Tympanistes pallida Moore, 1867. India: West Bengal, Sikkim; Nepal.
Tympanistes alternata Warren, 1912. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Tympanistes flavescens Swinhoe, 1905. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Tympanistes rubidorsalis Moore, 1888. India: Himachal Pradesh.
Tympanistes rufimacula Warren, 1916. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 |
- Tympanistes testacea Moore, 1867.Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 49, Pl. 6: 2 (Syntypes: India, West Bengal, Darjeeling, NHM (BMNH), London). Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofzoo1867zool/page/49/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 43/26.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 261 pp. + 45 pls. Pl. 27/18-19.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1264765-Tympanistes-testacea
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=1143809
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Tympanistes testacea Moore, 1867 – . 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/Tympanistes-testacea, accessed 2026/01/31.