Taxonomic Information
Thysanoptyx tetragona, oblong black area on forewing more rectangular, less rounded in the corner towards the apex, the female lacks black spot at FW base.
List of Thysanoptyx Hampson, 1894 known from India.
Thysanoptyx manganensis Singh & Joshi, 2017. India (Sikkim).
Thysanoptyx pseudotetragona Joshi, Singh & Kirti, 2015. India (Kerala).
Thysanoptyx sordida (Butler, 1881). India (West Bengal, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh).
Thysanoptyx tetragona (Walker, 1854). India (Sikkim, North India, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Kerala, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Tripura).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Thysanoptyx sordida -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- Thysanoptyx tetragona, pg 75, # 1329.
- Volynkin, A.V. and Dubatolov, V.V., 2017. On the taxonomy of the genus Thysanoptyx Hampson, 1894, with description of two new species from Indochina (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Zootaxa, 4277(1), pp.111-121.
- Singh, N. , Joshi. R., J. S. Kirti & A. V. Volynkin. 2017. A new species of Thysanoptyx Hampson,1894 from India (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae). Zootaxa 4319 (2): 375–378. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4319.2.8
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/02_EREBIDAE/02_ARCTIINAE/04_Lithosiinae/15_Thysanoptyx/Thysanoptyx%20sordida/Thysanoptyx%20sordida.htm [accessed 25 Aug 2015]
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Thysanoptyx sordida (Butler, 1881) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/thysanoptyx-sordida, accessed 2024/04/19.