Taxonomic Information
Penicillaria Guenée, 1852 species known from India.
Penicillaria jocosatrix Guenée, 1852. Indo-Australian tropics.
Penicillaria lineatrix Walker, 1858. S. India (TL: "Canara"), Maharashtra.
Penicillaria maculata Butler, 1889. Oriental tropics.
Penicillaria nugatrix Guenée, 1852. India.
Penicillaria plusioides (Walker, 1862). Oriental tropics; India: Arunachal Pradesh, Naga Hills.
Penicillaria simplex (Walker, 1865). Oriental tropics; India: Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Penicillaria lineatrix Walker, 1858. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 15: 1775; TL: Canara. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1315brit/page/1776/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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. 394, # 2267 as a form of Eutelia nugatrix.
- Bombotelia lineatrix; Hampson, 1912. Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Vol. 11: 14, Pl. 174/15. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/101549#page/36/mode/1up
- Seitz, A. (Ed.) 1912. Macro. Lep. World, Vol. 11, pg. 353, Pl. 32b. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/252298#page/363/mode/1up
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Penicillaria lineatrix Walker, 1858 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Penicillaria-lineatrix, accessed 2025/10/31.