
Taxonomic Information
Ataboruza Holloway, 2009 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Ataboruza discisigna (Warren, 1913). Sri Lanka.
Ataboruza divisa (Walker, 1862). Indo-Australian tropics.
Ataboruza lauta (Butler, 1878). Indian subregion.
Ataboruza stragulata (Pagenstecher, 1900). Indo-Australian tropics.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Ataboruza lauta (Butler, 1878) is reliably separated from A. divisa by examining genitalia.
This species was previously considered a synonym of A. divisa, but designated a separate species by Holloway, Moths of Borneo, Part 13. Vide MOB "the forewing postmedial in divisa is irregular, and the ground colour is a dark brown. The wings of lauta are a "medium pinkish brown" and that the p-m fascia is "regular with a duller brown distal component".
http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=541126 [accessed 05 September 2020] for A. lauta.
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West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
- Selenis divisa Walker, 1862. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1: 107; TL: Hindostan. Text at https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofen31186264roya#page/n148/mode/1up
- Selenis semilux Walker, 1865. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 33: 1069; TL: Ceylon. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso3334brit#page/1069/mode/1up
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 43/37 as Oruza divisa.
- 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. Part 2, Pl. 9/39.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=541126 [accessed 05 September 2020]
- https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/EREBIDAE/BOLETOBIINAE/Oruza%20divisa.html
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/acon/divisa.html
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204675-Ataboruza-divisa
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Ataboruza divisa (Walker, 1862) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://mothsofindia.org/ataboruza-divisa, accessed 2025/04/23.