Taxonomic Information
Similiar species:
Colostygia Hübner, 1825 species known from India
Colostygia albigirata (Kollar, [1844]). India (TL: Mussoorie, Uttarakhand).
Colostygia ustipennis (Hampson, 1895). India (TL: Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh).
Seitz, Vol. 12, Pg. 267 for Colostygia ustipennis.
Seitz, Vol. 4, Pl. 11f for Colostygia ustipennis.
FBI, Hampson, Vol. 3, pg. 367, # 3684 as Larentia ustipennis.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Colostygia albigirata -
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| Uttarakhand | 2 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
- OD: Cidaria albigirata Kollar, [1844]. In: Hugel, Kaschmir und das Reich de Siek 4 (2): 289.
- 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. 367, # 3685 as Larentia albigirata.
- Seitz, A. (Ed). Macro. Lep. Vol. 12, Pg. 267, pl. 26k as Colostygia albigirata.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 99/8 as Lampropteryx albigirata.
- Sanyal, A.K., Dey, P., Uniyal, V.P., Chandra, K. and Raha, A., 2017. Geometridae Stephens, 1829 from different altitudes in Western Himalayan Protected Areas of Uttarakhand, India.(Lepidoptera: Geometridae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología, 45(177), pp.143-163.
- 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. Plate 99.7.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1074412-Colostygia-albigirata
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=676477
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Colostygia albigirata (Kollar, [1844]) – . 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/colostygia-albigirata, accessed 2025/04/23.