Taxonomic Information
Mustilia Walker, 1865 species known from India.
Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Mustilia phaeopera Hampson, 1910. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Mustilia castanea Moore, 1879. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Mustilia falcipennis -
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Similar species: Mustilia phaeopera Hampson, 1910.
Mustilia falcipennis has HW costal area yellow. Mustillia phaeopera has HW costal area same colour as rest of wing. Also, the HW is more angled in falcipennis.
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 32: 581. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3132brit/page/581/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig.# 44, pg. 39.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 20/16
- Zolotuhin, V.V. 2007. A revision of the genus Mustilia Walker, 1865, with descriptions of new taxa (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae). Neue Entomologischen Nachrichten, 60: 187-205.
- Wang, X., Wang, M., Zolotuhin, V.V., Hirowatari, T., Wu, S. and Huang, G.H., 2015. The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands. Zootaxa, 3989(1), pp.1-138. Pg. 99, Fig. 8-A,B,C.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=297997
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865 – . 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/mustilia-falcipennis, accessed 2024/04/20.