Fascionycta fasciata (Moore, [1884]) -

Taxonomic Information

Fascionycta Kiss, 2017 species known from India. 
Fascionycta fasciata (Moore, [1884]). India: Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh; Sri Lanka
Fascionycta luteipennis (Warren, 1913). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills: TL).
Fascionycta malesiae (Holloway, 1989). NE Himalaya. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Fascionycta fasciata -


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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala21
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal1
Total122
  1. Hyboma fasciata Moore, [1884]. Lepid. Ceylon 3 (1): 5, pl. 144, f. 4; TL: Sri Lanka. Text at https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraofcey03moor/page/n26/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraofcey03moor/page/n616/mode/1up?view=theater
  2. Hyboma divisa Moore, 1888. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 409; TL: India, Himachal Pradesh, Kangra district, Dharmsala. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen88zool/page/409/mode/1up?view=theater
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 135/6
  4. Craniophora fasciata MooreKononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera (in Thailand: Part 1. Bangkok, Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand. 261 pp., 45 pls. Pl. 39/25-26. 
  5. Singh, N. & Ranjan, R. 2016. Additions to the moth fauna of Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jharkhand (India). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 116(4), pp.323-336.
  6. Sivasankaran, K., Anand, S., Mathew, P. & Ignacimuthu, S., 2017. Checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats, india. Check List, 13, p.1101.
  7. Kiss, A., 2017. Taxonomic review of the Craniophora s. l. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acronictinae) generic complex with description of 8 new genera and 13 new species. Zootaxa, 4355(1), pp.1-90. Figure 2/E. 
  8. Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, T. Karmakar & K. Kunte. 2021. Moth diversity (Lepidoptera) of Shendurney and Ponmudi in Agastyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Kerala, India: an update. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(3): 166-178. Image 40. 
  9. http://www.jpmoth.org/Noctuidae/Acronictinae/Craniophora_fasciata.html
  10. http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/acro/fasciata.html
  11. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/701072-Fascionycta-fasciata
  12. http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Fascionycta_Fasciata_En

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Fascionycta fasciata (Moore, [1884]) – . 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/Fascionycta-fasciata, accessed 2024/04/20.