Leucania yu Guenée, 1852 -

Taxonomic Information

Leucania Ochsenheimer, 1816 species known from India. 
Leucania albistigma Moore, 1881. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling). 
Leucania basilinea Swinhoe, 1890. Myanmar
Leucania celebensis (Tams, 1935). India; Nepal. 
Leucania corrugata Hampson, 1894. India: Himachal Pradesh
Leucania curvilinea Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris.
Leucania designata Walker, 1856. India: Karnataka (“Canara”: TL); Nepal; Myanmar. ​​​​​​​
Leucania fragilis (Butler, 1883). India: Himachal Pradesh.
Leucania ineana Snellen, 1880. India: Madhya Pradesh; Nepal. 
Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827). India; Nepal. 
Leucania megaproctis (Hampson, 1905). Sri Lanka.
Leucania percussa Butler, 1880. India: West Bengal.
Leucania roseilinea Walker, 1862. India: Nilgiris.
Leucania polemusa Swinhoe, 1885. India: Maharashtra (Mumbai).
Leucania semiusta Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris.
Leucania venalba Moore, 1867. India: West Bengal. 
Leucania uniformis Moore, 1881. NW Himalaya.
Leucania vana (Swinhoe, 1885). India: Maharashtra (Pune).
Leucania vindhyae Hreblay & Legrain, 1999. India: Vindhyas.
Leucania yu Guenée, 1852. India. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

MOB as Mythimna loreyi (Duponchel, 1827)
Diagnosis. This species could be confused with M. venalba Moore and M. roseilinea Walker, but is larger with a distinct white fleck at the discal end of CuA in the forewing cell. On the forewing below the postmedial costal brown mark of the other two species is absent in loreyi. The hindwing margin often has dark brown marks on the veins; these are rarely seen in the other two species.
 

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh1
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka2
Kerala12
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra1
Manipur
Meghalaya1
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga11
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu1
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand221
West Bengal
Total12312521
Leucania yu Guenée, 1852: Saccharum officinarum, Paspalum (Poaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010). 
  1. OD: Leucania yu Guenée, 1852. Hist. nat. Insectes, Spec. gen. Lepid., 5: 78.
  2. Leucania exempta Walker, 1857. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 11: 710; TL: Ceylon
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 62/6.
  4. Barlow, H.S. 1982. An introduction to the moths of S.E. Asia. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. Pp. 305, pl. 28/4. Listed as Mythimna yu. 
  5. Singh, N. & Ranjan, R. 2016. Additions to the moth fauna of Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jharkhand (India). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 116(4), pp.323-336. Plate 2 as Mythimna yu
  6. http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-12/hadeninae/hadeninae_4_17.php [accessed 09 May 2020]
  7. http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Leucania_Yu_En [accessed 09 May 2020]
  8. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=76922 [accessed 09 May 2020]
  9. http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/hade/yu.html [accessed 09 May 2020]
  10. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/124314-Leucania-yu

 

 

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Leucania yu Guenée, 1852 – . 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/leucania-yu, accessed 2024/03/28.