Acontia (Acontia ) opalinoides Guenée, 1852: 219

Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet, 2025, A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India, Zootaxa 5669 (1), pp. 1-225 : 12

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5669.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0FF371C7-4A0B-44BF-B673-9ED3B1560F9B

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A3F16-1023-FFA6-FF0E-0D48FEC7FA0E

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scientific name

Acontia (Acontia ) opalinoides Guenée, 1852: 219
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9. Acontia (Acontia) opalinoides Guenée, 1852: 219 View in CoL

TL: “Cote de Coromandel” [ Tamil Nadu, India]

= Calophasia postica Walker, 1865: 764 View in CoL (TL: South Hindostan (South India))

Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Guenée 1852, Swinhoe 1900, Hampson 1910). Global: Africa ( Angola, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Mali, Mauritiana, Namibia, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania), Iran, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Yemen (Hampson 1910, Hacker et al. 2008, Hacker 2013).

Remark: Worldwide three subspecies, A. o. opalinoides (TL: Tamil Nadu, India), A. o. transafricana Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger , 2008 (TL: East Africa) and A. o. westsafricana Hacker, Legrain & Fibiger , 2008 (TL: Cape Verde, Africa).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Acontia

Loc

Acontia (Acontia ) opalinoides Guenée, 1852: 219

Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet 2025
2025
Loc

Calophasia postica

Walker 1865: 764
1865
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