Taxonomic Information
Lysimelia Walker, [1859] species known from India and Sri Lanka.
Lysimelia alstoni Holloway, 1979. India: Kerala; Sri Lanka.
Lysimelia lysimeloides (Hampson, 1893). Sri Lanka.
Lysimelia neleusalis Walker, [1859]. Oriental tropics.
Lysimelia nigripes (Hampson, 1895). India: Sikkim; Myanmar.
Lysimelia lysimeloides (Hampson, 1893) maybe a synonym of Lysimelia neleusalis Walker, [1859]. This species is provisionally identified as Lysimelia neleusalis Walker, [1859]; examining of specimens and/or genitalia need to clarify species for separation from/validity of Lysimelia lysimeloides (Hampson, 1893).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Lysimelia neleusalis -
Similar species: Lysimelia lysimeloides (Hampson, 1893)
FBI, Hampson, Vol. 3, pg. 60 as Nodaria lysimeloides. Text at https://archive.org/details/moths03hamp/page/60/mode/1up?view=theater
Hampson,Ill. Brit. Mus. Vol. 9. Pg 127, Pl 167/10 as Zanclognatha lysimeloides. States that it is similar to neleusalis but that the antennae of male are simple instead of having peculiarly long cilia and there is a tuft of hairs from the inside of the base of the third joint of the palpi, which is naked in neleusalis.
MOT, Vol. 3, Part 2, Pg. 29 lists Lysimelia lysimeloides as a synonym of Lysimelia neleusalis. Hampson, FBI, Vol. 4, pg. 541 also lists lysimeloides as a synonym of neleusalis.
https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-17/herminiinae/herminiinae_23_17.php states Polypogon ochreipes Prout and Polypogon phineusalis Walker are similar extralimital species.
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- Lysimelia neleusalis Walker, [1859]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 16: 201; TL: Sarawak. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1618brit/page/201/mode/1up?view=theater
- Nodaria maculipex Hampson, 1898. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 11 (4): 701; TL: Khasis. Text at https://archive.org/details/journalofbombayn11189798bomb/page/701/mode/1up?view=theater
- Lysimelia perixeimenus Rothschild, 1920. J. Fed. Malay States Mus. 8 (3): 125; TL: Kornichi, Sandaran Agong [Sumatra]
- Lysimelia neleusalis; [POOLE]; Zahiri, Holloway, Kitching, Lafontaine, Mutanen & Wahlberg, 2012, Syst. Ent. 37 (1): 107.
- Polypogon neleusalis; MOT, Vol. 3, Part 2, Pg. 29, Pl. 2/33-34 as .
- Roger Kendrick PhD Plate 33/33.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/334970-Lysimelia-neleusalis
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-17/herminiinae/herminiinae_23_17.php as Polypogon neleusalis.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Lysimelia neleusalis Walker, [1859] – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/Lysimelia-neleusalis, accessed 2024/05/09.