Taxonomic Information
Britha Walker, [1866] species known from India.
Britha biguttata Walker, [1866]. India; Myanmar; Sri Lanka.
Britha pactalis (Walker, [1859]). India; Sri Lanka.
Britha bilineata (Wileman, 1915). India: Tamil Nadu (Travancore: TL); Sri Lanka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- OD: Britha biguttata Walker, [1866]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 34: 1147; TL: Queensland, Moreton Bay. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso3334brit#page/1147/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. pg 94, #2990.
- Herminia ? incertalis Walker, [1866]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 34: 1518; TL: Java. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/1518/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hypena colabalis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874. Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (4): pl. 120, f. 29; TL: Amboina. Plate at https://archive.org/details/umdieerdeindenja03akad?view=theater#page/n316/mode/1up
- Rhynchina ides Bethune-Baker, 1908; Novit. Zool. 15: 229; TL: British New Guinea, Aroa River. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi15lond/page/229/mode/1up?view=theater
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (insecta : lepidoptera) of Hong Kong. Plate 33/9.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/545351-Britha-biguttata
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=282971
- https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Britha_Biguttata_En
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/hypn/biguttata.html
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
Note: Britha biguttata Walker, [1866] males are easily identified as biguttata male has traces of the longitudinal pale patch at one third from the dorsum in the centre of the wing. Male biguttata has pectinnate antennae, while female lacks pectinations. Given that no male of biguttata has been recorded on MOI so far, we believe that all the females on this page are likely to be pactalis but can be either biguttata or pactalis, but this is difficult to ascertain with certainty. Hence this page, which was earlier listed as Britha biguttata Walker, [1866] is now changed to Britha spp.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Britha spp. Walker, [1866] – . 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/britha-spp., accessed 2025/04/23.