Taxonomic Information
Callopistria Hübner, [1821] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Callopistria aethiops Butler, 1878. India: Sikkim, Nilgiris.
Callopistria albistrigoides Poole, 1989. Sri Lanka.
Callopistria callopistrioides (Moore, 1881). India: Uttarakhand, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills); Nepal.
Callopistria chlorocroa (Hampson, 1908). NE Himalaya.
Callopistria coelisigna Hampson, 1902. Sri Lanka.
Callopistria duplicans Walker, [1858]. India: Sikkim, Assam, Maharashtra. (Mumbai); Myanmar.
Callopistria exotica (Guenée, 1852). NE Himalaya.
Callopistria guttulalis Hampson, 1896 Sri Lanka; India.
Callopistria indica (Butler, 1891). India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Dharamsala), Assam, Maharashtra. (Mumbai).
Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827). India: Himachal Pradesh; “ Nilgiris”, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka.
Callopistria leucobasis (Hampson, 1908). India: Assam; Sri Lanka.
Callopistria maillardi maillardi (Guenée, 1862). India-Australian tropics.
Callopistria nivetacta (Warren, 1912). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Callopistria nephrostictoides Berio, 1973. Myanmar.
Callopistria minor Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris; Nepal.
Callopistria minuta Butler, 1889. India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Dharamsala), Uttarakhand, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Callopistria placodoides (Guenée, 1852). India-Australian tropics.
Callopistria phaeogona (Hampson, 1908). India: Arunachal Pradesh?.
Callopistria pulchrilinea (Walker, 1862). India; Sri Lanka; Nepal.
Callopistria rectisecta (Warren, 1912). India: Assam
Callopistria repleta Walker, [1858]. India.
Callopistria rivularis Walker, [1858]. India-Australian tropics.
Callopsitria strigilineata Hampson, 1894. India: Sikkim.
Callopistria thalpophiloides thalpophiloides (Walker, 1862)
Callopistria variegata (Swinhoe, 1895). India: Meghalaya.
Callopistria yerburii Butler, 1884. India: Tamil Nadu (Madras); Sri Lanka.
Mosara apicalis Walker, 1855, placed by Holloway in Callopistria, was suggested as possibly retained as Mosara, placed in the subfamily Aediinae by Yen & Wu (2009).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
- Eriopus placodoides Guenee, 1852, in Boisduval & Guenee, Hist.nat. Insectes (Lepid.) 6: 296.
- 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. 256, # 1846, Fig. 144. Nilgiris, Borneo, Java. Mentions some specimens darker than others.
- Seitz, A. (Ed), Macro Lep. Vol. 11, pg. 161, Pl. 19b as Eriopus placodoides.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 86/6.
- Yen, S. H., & Wu, S. 2009. Biota Taiwanica: Hexapoda: Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae, Eriopinae. National Sun Yat-Sen University & National Science Council. Fig. 8G.
- 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. 42/14-15.
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Image 250.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33045593
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Callopistria placodoides (Guenée, 1852) – . 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://moths.ncbs.res.in/callopistria-placodoides, accessed 2024/04/18.