Taxonomic Information
Aiteta Walker, 1856 species known from India (Joshi et al. 2021):
Aiteta apriformis (Walker, 1857). India: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh; Sri Lanka.
Aiteta brooksi Holloway, 1976. IndiaL Andaman Is..
Aiteta damnipennis (Walker, 1865). Indian subregion.
Aiteta musculina Walker, 1856. India: Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka; Sri Lanka; Nepal.
Aiteta rufoflava (Walker, [1857]). India: Bihar, Jharkhand, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra.
Aiteta rufula Warren, 1912. India: Meghalaya (TL).
Aiteta trigoniphora (Hampson, 1898). India: Meghalaya (TL), Himalayan region.
Aiteta trunctata (Walker, 1858) is treated as a synonym of Aiteta musculina Walker, 1856.
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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| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Aiteta musculina Walker, 1856. List of the Specimens of lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, 9: 131.
- Brada truncata Walker, 1858. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, Vol 15 pg 1666, #1. TL: Sri Lanka. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso1315brit#page/1666/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs.pg 419 #2324 as Capotena truncata.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 86/34.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pl. 28/8-10.
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K. 2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 140/1.
- Joshi, R., Singh, N. and Kuni, N., 2021. A catalogue of Nolidae Bruand, 1846 from India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5034(1), pp.1-112. Figure 2.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Aiteta musculina Walker, 1856 – . 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/aiteta-musculina, accessed 2024/04/18.