Taxonomic Information
Tonica Walker, 1864 species in the Indian subcontinent
Tonica barrowi (Bingham, 1907). Myanmar.
Tonica gypsopis Meyrick, 1928. Andamans.
Tonica niviferana (Walker, 1864). India, Sri Lanka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
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| Kerala | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Tonica niviferana (Walker, 1864): Bombax ceiba, Ceiba pentandra (Malvaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Binsitta niviferana Walker, 1864. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, pg 832. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso2930brit#page/832/mode/1up
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (Insecta : Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong. Plate 3/14.
- Shubhalaxmi, V. 2018. Birdwing Field Guide to Indian Moths, 1st Edition. Birdwing Publishers, India, 461pp. Plate 155/6.
- https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=29419.0. Treatment of both family/subfamily for this genus is unclear.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/371468-Tonica-niviferana
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Tonica niviferana (Walker, 1864) – . 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/tonica-niviferana, accessed 2024/04/25.