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Lepidoptera > Noctuoidea > Erebidae > Erebinae > Ophiusini > Artena

Artena dotata (Fabricius, 1794)

Indian and global distribution:
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Arunachal Pradesh
Goa
Himachal Pradesh
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Maharashtra
Manipur
Nagaland
Odisha
Tamil Nadu
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
All states
Similiar species:
List of Artena Walker, 1858 species known from India.
Artena certior (Walker, 1858). India.
Artena dotata (Fabricius, 1794). Sri Lanka.
Artena lacteicincta (Hampson, 1912). India: NE Himalaya, Shillong, Meghalaya.
Artena rubida (Walker, 1863). India: NE Himalaya, Andamans.
Artena submira Walker, 1858. India.
References:
  1. Hampson, G. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs, pg. 496, # 2490 as Ophiusa dotata.
  2. 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, # 385, pg, 81, pl. 19.

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Anonymous. 2022. Artena dotata (Fabricius, 1794). In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Moths of India, v. 3.30. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. http://www.mothsofindia.org/sp/355079/Artena-dotata
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