Thinopteryx crocoptera (Kollar, [1844]) -

Taxonomic Information

Similiar species:
Thinopteryx Butler, 1883 species known from India

Thinopteryx crocoptera (Kollar [1844]). India.
Thinopteryx citrina Warren, 1894. N. India. 
Thinopteryx nebulosa Butler, 1883. India. 

Diagnosis vide MOB. This (crocoptera) and the next species (nebulosa) are very similar in facies, crocoptera being slightly larger with the wings less heavily irrorated with grey such that the pale orange ground colour is more evident. The forewing fasciae are more prominent, the antemedial more oblique in crocoptera, but nebulosa has a conspicuous yellow patch just basal to the postmedial.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Thinopteryx crocoptera -

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Thinopteryx crocoptera (Kollar, [1844]): Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Vitis vinifera, Ampelopsis spp.(Vitaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).

  1. OD: Urapteryx crocoptera Kollar, [1844]; in Hügel, Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek 4: 483; TL: Mussooree.
  2. Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg. 148, # 3090. 
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 10/8. 
  4. http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-11/Thinopterygini/thinopteryx_1_1.php [accessed 30 August 2017]

Page citation

Anonymous 2023. Thinopteryx crocoptera (Kollar, [1844]) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.51. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/thinopteryx-crocoptera, accessed 2023/06/10.