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Acontia marmoralis (Fabricius, 1794)

Acontia marmoralis

Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Acontia marmoralis
Indian and global distribution:
records (based on images):
Identification:
Sexual, seasonal & individual variation:
Status, Habitat and Habits:
Adult moth observations that have been databased:
StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Gujarat
Karnataka
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttarakhand
All states
Similiar species:
References:
  1. Phalaena marmoralis Fabricius, 1794, Ent. Syst. 3 (2): 234. 
  2. Acontia tropica Guenée, 1852, in BSD & GN, Hist. Nat. Ins., Noct. 2: 217. 
  3. Acontia bipunctata Walker, 1858, List. Spec. Lep. Ins. Colln. Br. Mus. 12: 798. 
  4. Acontia maculosa Walker, 1858, List. Spec. Lep. Ins. Colln. Br. Mus. 12: 795. 
  5. 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. 314, # 2030, Fig. 170. Male. As Tarache tropica. 
  6. Hacker, H., Legrain, A. and Fibiger, M., 2008. Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenee, 1841 (Old World)(Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acontiinae). Esperiana, 14, pp.7-533. 
  7. Chen, F.Q., Yang, C. & Xue, D.Y. 2012: A taxonomic study of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae) from China. Entomotaxonomia 34(2): 275–283. 
  8. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 87/8. 
  9. Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pl. 36/40-41 
  10. Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (Insecta : Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong.Pl. 41/9. 
  11. Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 141.1
  12. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/203867-Acontia-marmoralis 
  13. http://www.jpmoth.org/Noctuidae/Acontiinae+Eustrotiinae/Acontia_marmoralis.html  [accessed 20 July 2021]

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Anonymous. 2022. Acontia marmoralis (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/357897/Acontia-marmoralis
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