Taxonomic Information
Parapercnia Wehrli, 1939 species known from India and Sri Lanka.
Parapercnia caritaria (Walker, 1860). Sri Lanka.
Parapercnia diurnaria (Guenée,1858). India: S. India.
Parapercnia cordularia (Swinhoe, 1893). India; Nepal.
Parapercnia herbidaria (Guenée, 1857). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills); Nepal.
Parapercnia irrorataria (Bremer & Grey, 1853). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills). Parapercnia lectularia (Swinhoe,1891)
is a synonym.
Parapercnia pertusaria (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling). India; Nepal.
Parapercnia striatifera Hampson,1902 . India: S. India (TL: Travancore).
Parapercnia sinensium (Oberthür, 1913). India.
Parapercnia xanthypochlora (Wehrli, 1924). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Parapercnia kalakadaria (Sato, 2014). S. & W. India.
Described from Tamil Nadu by Sato (2014). These records from Goa and Maharashtra are the first records of Parapercnia kalakadaria (Sato, 2014) from Western India and extend the known range of the species.
Ophthalmitis Fletcher, 1979 is considered a junior subjective synonym of Parapercnia Wehrli, 1939 (Murillo-Ramos et al, 2021).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Ophthalmitis herbidaria (Guenée, 1858): Casearia sp. (Salicaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Ophthalmodes herbidaria Guenée, 1858, In Boisduval & Guenée, Hist. nat. Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.), 9: 283. Syntypes 1m, 1f, India (central). (BMNH).
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg. 255, Fig. 3375.
- Jiang, N., D. Xue & H. Han. 2011. A review of Ophthalmitis Fletcher, 1979 in China, with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae). Zootaxa 2735: 1-22. Pg. 11-12, Fig. 19-22.
- Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Image 177.
- Murillo-Ramos, L., Chazot, N., Sihvonen, P., Ounap, E., Jiang, N., Han, H., Clarke, J.T., Davis, R.B., Tammaru, T. and Wahlberg, N., 2021. Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography and diversification patterns of a diverse group of moths (Geometridae: Boarmiini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 162, p.107198.
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Parapercnia herbidaria (Guenée, [1858]) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/parapercnia-herbidaria, accessed 2026/04/09.