Subspecies in India
Callopistria thalpophiloides thalpophiloides (Walker, 1862). S. India, Andaman Is; Sri Lanka.
Callopistria thalpophiloides major (Warren, 1913). Papua New Guinea.
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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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Total | 1 |
- Data thalpophiloides Walker, 1862. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 6: 192; TL: Sarawak. Text at https://archive.org/details/journalofproceed06linn/page/192/mode/1up?view=theater
- Thalpophila cuprea Moore, 1877. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1877 (3): 604, pl. 59, f. 10; TL: Andaman Islands. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen772zool/page/604/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen772zool/page/n260/mode/1up?view=theater
- Thalpophila callopistrioides Moore, 1881. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. Pg. 344. TL: Khasi Hills. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30759493#page/446/mode/1up
- Thalpophila delineata Moore, 1884. Lepid. Ceylon 3 (1): 25, pl. 146, f. 5; TL: Ceylon. Text at https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraofcey03moor/page/n46/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraofcey03moor/page/n606/mode/1up?view=theater
- Data thalpophiloides; Hampson, 1908, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 7: 529, f. 111. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33285354#page/551/mode/1up
- Holloway, J. D. 1989. The moths of Borneo (part 12); Family Noctuidae: Subfamilies Noctuinae, Heliothinae, Hadeninae, Acronictinae, Amphipyrinae, Agaristinae. Malayan Nature Journal 43: 57-226. Pg. 161, Pl. 5/6
- Yen, S-H. & S. Wu. 2009. Hexapoda: Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Eriopinae), Biota Taiwanica : 3-88. Pg. 56.
- 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. Bangkok, Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand. 625 pp., 55 pls.Pl. 42/3-4.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-12/amphipyrinae/amphipyrinae_22_6.php
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1284396-Data-callopistrioides
- https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Data_thalpophiloides_En
Note: Numerous websites and older literature place this species in the genus Data, rather than Callopistria. However, we could find no recent published literature to support this and we follow Yen & Wu (2009) and Kononenko & Pinratana (2013) in continuing to place this in Callopistria.
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Callopistria thalpophiloides (Walker, 1862) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.62. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/Callopistria-thalpophiloides, accessed 2023/11/29.