Somatina anthophilata Guenée, [1858] -

Taxonomic Information

List of Somatina Guenée, [1858] species in India and Sri Lanka.

Somatina anthophilata Guenée, [1858]. TL: Bombay, Kerala.

Somatina omicraria (Fabricius, 1798). TL: India. Sri Lanka, Kerala.

Somatina plynusaria (Walker, [1863]). Sylhet (Bangladesh), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh, Kerala.

Somatina postlineata (Warren, 1899). India. 

Somatina purpurascens Moore, [1887]. Sri Lanka, Kerala. 

Somatina rosacea rosacea Swinhoe, 1894. Khasi Hills, Meghalaya,Kerala.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh21
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka11
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh1
Maharashtra1
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total11311
Somatina anthophilata Guenée, [1858]: Gardenia jasminoides, Catunaregam spinosa (Rubiaceae), Rosa (Rosaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010). 
  1. Somatina anthophilata Guenée, 1857. Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 10: 11. Text at https://archive.org/stream/histoirenaturell10bois#page/11/mode/1up
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  5. Sihvonen, P. 2005. Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 473–530. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x.
  6. http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Somatina_Anthophilata [accessed 17 August 2020]
  7. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/324609-Somatina-anthophilata
 

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Somatina anthophilata Guenée, [1858] – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.72. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/somatina-anthophilata, accessed 2024/03/29.