Taxonomic Information
Timandra Duponchel, 1829 species known from India.
Timandra amataria griseata (Petersen, 1902).
Timandra comptaria Walker, 1863. India.
Timandra convectaria convectaria Walker, 1861. Bangladesh; India: Shimla, Nauni, Subathu.
Timandra correspondens (Hampson, 1895). Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh.
Timandra nelsoni Prout, 1918. South India; Sri Lanka.
Timandra obsoleta Warren, 1897. Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Timandra responsaria responsaria Moore, 1888. Cherrapunji; Nilgiris.
Timandra ruptilinea Warren, 1897. E. Himalayas.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similiar species:
Timandra convectaria and T. ruptilinea (as per comms. 2017-02-21 07:52:30 Roger Kendrick)
The key visible differences between T. convectaria and T. ruptilinea are as follows:
T. convectaria:
‣ forewing between costa and radial vein is darkly suffused from the base to around the median;
‣ small dark spot near the apex, just terminally placed off the main "blood-vein" streak;
‣ antennae darkened dorsally
T. ruptilinea lacks these three features, and consequently looks paler and "cleaner". Additionally, the "blood-vein" in ruptilinea meets the apex at the apex or just to the terminal side, whereas in convectaria, this line meets the apex several mm on the costal side.
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- Timandra ruptilinea Warren, 1897. New genera and species of moths from the Old-World regions in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae. Vol 4: 64.
- hkwildlife.net http://www.hkwildlife.net/Forum/viewthread.php?tid=36922 [accessed 28 March 2017]
- Plate 20/25.
- Cui, L., Xue, D. and Jiang, N., 2019. A review of Timandra Duponchel, 1829 from China, with description of seven new species (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). ZooKeys, 829, p.43. Fig. 16.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Timandra ruptilinea Warren,1897 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.82. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/timandra-ruptilinea, accessed 2025/02/16.