Taxonomic Information
List of Scopelodes Westwood, 1841 species known from India.
Scopelodes contracta Walker, 1855. India
Scopelodes kwangtungensis Hering, 1931. Nepal; Bangladesh; Myanmar; India: North India.
Scopelodes sericea Butler, 1880. Myanmar; India.
Scopelodes testacea Butler, 1886. Sri Lanka; Nepal; Bhutan; Bangladesh; Myanmar; India.
Scopelodes unicolor Westwood, 1841. Myanmar.
Scopelodes venosa Walker, 1855. Nepal; Bhutan; Bangladesh; Myanmar; India.
Scopelodes vulpina Moore, 1879. Nepal; Myanmar; India: Khasia Hills, Meghalaya, Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Scopelodes witti Solovyev & Giusti, 2017. India: Assam, Andamans.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Scopelodes testacea from Limacodidae of Vietnam.
The species is distinguished externally from other Scopelodes Westwood, 1841 by the white tuft of labial palps with black apex; the hindwings are greyish yellow with weakly defined yellow veins as in S. venosa Walker, 1855; the forewings are dark (as illustrated) or light grayish brown with transverse postmedial light field (Colour plate 12, figs 3–5; Colour plate 17, fig. 8).
| 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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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 3 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Scopelodes testacea Butler, 1886: Musa sp. (Musaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Scopelodes testacea Butler, 1886. Ill. typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln Br. Mus. 6 : 3, pl. 101, f. 5 at http://archive.org/stream/illustrationsoft06brituoft#page/3/mode/1up [accessed 27 September 2017]
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl 39/24.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=260915 [accessed 27 September 2017]
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/60_ZYGAENOIDEA/Limacodidae/19_Scopelodes/Scopelodes%20testacea/Scopelodes%20testacea.htm [accessed 27 September 2017]
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Scopelodes testacea Butler, 1886 – . 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/scopelodes-testacea, accessed 2024/04/19.