Subspecies in India
Macaduma Walker, 1866 species known from India.
Macaduma tortricella Walker, 1866. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh.
The only known member of this genus from India.
Note: This species (Observation MOI-pqm917) is provisionally identified as Macaduma tortricella Walker, 1866, female, as the forewing indentation present in the male is not visible.
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Similar extralimital species
Macaduma micra Dubatolov & Bucsek, 2016
Bayarsaikhan, U., Im, K.H. and Bae, Y.S., 2020. Six new recorded species of Lithosiini (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae) in Cambodia. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 13(3), pp.384-390. Fig. 1J. Shows micra male, but extralimital.
Macaduma malayana Bucsek, 2014
Macaduma malayana Bucsek, K., 2014. Erebidae, Arctiinae (Lithosiini, Arctiini) of Malay Peninsula-Malaysia (Supplementum): Institute of Zoology SAS, Bratislava. 45 pp.
Zhao, T.T., Bucsek, K. and Han, H.L., 2022. Two new species and one new record of the genus Macaduma Walker, 1866 from China (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 50(197), pp.97-103. Fig. 7 for M. malayana, which does not show indentation in HW, but is extralimital.
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- Macaduma tortricella Walker, 1866; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 35: 1705; TL: Java. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso35brit/page/1705/mode/1up?view=theater
- Macaduma tortricella; Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 2: 266, f. 184. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid2brituoft/page/266/mode/1up?view=theater
- Moths of Laos, Vol. 2, Pl. 57/13.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/785291-Macaduma-tortricella
- https://bench.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_TaxonPage?taxid=541161
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-7/cisthenini/cisthenini_13.php
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Macaduma tortricella 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/macaduma-tortricella, accessed 2025/04/23.