Taxonomic Information
Herochroma Swinhoe, 1893 species known from India.
Herochroma baba Swinhoe, 1893. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Herochroma baibarana baibarana (Matsumura, 1931). India: NE Himalaya, Assam, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Herochroma orientalis (Holloway, 1982). NE Himalaya; Sri Lanka is its synonym.
Herochroma cristata (Warren, 1894). India: Sikkim, Assam, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu.
Herochroma subspoliata (Prout, 1916). India: Nilgiris (TL), Tamil Nadu, Kerala.
Herochroma elaearia (Hampson, 1903). India: Sikkim, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh.
Herochroma farinosa (Warren, 1893), NW Himalayas, Lahoul.
Herochroma flavitincta (Warren, 1897). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Herochroma liliana (Swinhoe, 1892). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Herochroma ochreipicta (Swinhoe, 1905). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills), Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Herochroma subtepens (Walker, 1860). India: Sikkim, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Herochroma usneata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875). India: Himalayas.
Herochroma viridaria (Moore, 1868). India: West Bengal.
Herochroma yazakii Inoue, 1999. Nepal [Godavari]; India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Herochroma costata Kirti, Goyal & Kaur, 2012. Karnataka. This species name is thus considered a nomen nudum (Plotkin & Kawahara, 2020).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 1 |
- Actenochroma cristata Warren, 1894; Novit. zool. 1 (2): 381; TL: Bhutan; Sikkim. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi01lond/page/381/mode/1up?view=theater
- Actenochroma subopalina Warren, 1894; Novit. zool. 1 (2): 382; TL: Khasia Hills. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi01lond/page/382/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 2/11.
- Kishida, Y. (Ed.). 2020. Moths of Laos, Part 1, TINEA Vol. 25, (Supplement 2), pp. 1-224, 94 pls. Pl. 11/4.
- Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Pl. 4/64.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/194584-Herochroma-cristata
- https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=1211504
- https://twmoth.tbri.gov.tw/peo/MothQuery?F=Geometridae&G=Herochroma&S=Herochroma%20cristata
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Herochroma cristata (Warren, 1894) – . 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/herochroma-cristata, accessed 2025/04/24.