Taxonomic Information
List of Nordstromia Bryk, 1943 species known from India.
Nordstromia vira (Moore, [1866]) (Drepana). India (West Bengal, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Sikkim); NE Myanmar.
Nordstromia bicostata bicostata (Hampson, 1912) (Drepana). India (North India, Sikkim); North Myanmar.
Nordstromia argenticeps (Warren, 1922) (Albara), India (Sikkim, NE India); Nepal.
Nordstromia lilacina (Moore, 1888) (Drepana). India (NE India, NW India, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh); Nepal.
Nordstromia simillima (Moore, 1888) (Drepana). India (NW India, Himachal Pradesh).
Nordstromia duplicata (Warren,1922) (Albara). India (NE Himalaya, Meghalaya).
Nordstromia humerata (Warren, 1896) (Albara). India (NE India, Meghalaya).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Nordstromia lilacina -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Nordstromia lilacina (Moore, 1888): Quercus variabilis (Fagaceae) (Sen et al. 2002).
- OD: Drepana lilacina Moore, 1888. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1888: 401; TL: Dharmsala. Text at https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen88zool#page/401/mode/1up.
- 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.Pg. 336, # 720 as Drepana lilacina.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 1/12.
- Smetacek, P. 2008. Moths recorded from different elevation in Nainital district, Kumaon Himalaya, India. Bionotes. 10(1):5 -15. Reported from Uttarakhand.
- Sondhi, Y. & S. Sondhi. 2016. A partial checklist of moths (Lepidoptera) of Dehradun, Mussoorie and Devalsari in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(5): 8756–8776; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2814.8.5.8756-8776.Image 24.
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Nordstromia lilacina (Moore, 1888) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.50. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/nordstromia-lilacina, accessed 2023/06/04.