Agathia incudaria Joannis, 1929 -

Taxonomic Information

List of Agathia Guenée, [1858] known from India based on Kirti et al. (2019). 
Agathia angustilimes Prout, 1926. India: Pusa, Bihar. 
Agathia arcuata Moore, 1868. India: Bengal. 
Agathia beata Butler, 1880. India: Sikkim, Darjeeling, West Bengal. 
Agathia carissima prasina Swinhoe, 1893. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. 
Agathia codina Swinhoe, 1892. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. 
Agathia conviridaria (Hübner, 1823). 
Agathia diversiformis Warren, 1894. India: Darjeeling, West Bengal. 
Agathia gaudens Prout, 1932. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. 
Agathia gemma Swinhoe, 1892. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. 
Agathia gigantea Butler, 1880. India: Indian Himalaya. 
Agathia hemithearia Guenée, 1857. India: Central India. 
Agathia hilarata Guenée, [1858]. India: Central India. 
Agathia incudaria antitheta Prout, 1932. India: Sikkim, Uttarakhand. 
Agathia lactala Herbulot, 1977. India: Andaman. 
Agathia laetata (Fabricius, 1794). India: Andaman Island, Cherrapunji, Meghalaya. 
Agathia laetata andamanensis Prout, 1932.  
Agathia laetata isogyna Prout, 1916. 
Agathia laqueifera Prout, 1912. India: Upper Assam, Digboi. 
Agathia lycaenaria (Kollar, 1844). India: Himalayas, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.  
Agathia lycaenaria impar Prout, 1916. India: South India, Belgaum, Karnataka, Travancore, Kerala. 
Agathia magnifica Moore, 1879. Sri Lanka; India: Indian Himalaya. 
Agathia microlaetata Goyal, Kirti & Saxena, 2018. India: Jog falls, Karnataka. 
Agathia quinaria Moore, 1868. India: Bengal. 
Agathia solaria Swinhoe, 1905. India: NE Himalaya. 
Agathia visenda Butler, 1880. India: Darjeeling, West Bengal. 
Agathia visenda gaudens Prout, 1932.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Similar species: 
Agathia quinaria Moore, 1868
Vide Seitz Vol 12 pg 70 & Pl 9d, "exceedingly similar to quinaria (9 d), rather less vividly coloured, the dark borders a little narrower and more unicolorous, that of the forewing nearly always (in quinaria very rarely) containing a green spot in cellule 3, the proximal edge of this border less sinuous. Abdomen without the green spot. "

Agathia hilarata Guenée, [1858]: No green spot on FW posterior to the subapical green patch, the central brown band not as oblique posteriorly. 

Agathia angustilimes Prout, 1926: The dark bands narrower, the central brown band less oblique. 
 

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh1
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand111
West Bengal
Total1111
  1. Agathia antitheta Prout, 1932. In: Seitz, A. (Ed). Gross-Schmett. Erde 12: 70, pl. 9d.Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/251778#page/78/mode/1up. Plate at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/251778#page/333/mode/1up
  2. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 103, Pl. 59/3 as Agathia antitheta
  3. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=274535
  4. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35152474
     

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Agathia incudaria Joannis, 1929 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.72. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/agathia-incudaria, accessed 2024/03/28.