Noctuides melanophia Staudinger, 1892 -

Taxonomic Information

Noctuides species known from the Indian subcontinent. 
Noctuides melanophia Staudinger, 1892. India: Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya; Sri Lanka; Bhutan. 
Noctuides thurivora (Meyrick, 1932) (Anartula). Sri Lanka

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Noctuides melanophia -


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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya1
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
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  1. Noctuides melanophia Staudinger, 1892. Lepidopteren aus Tunis. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris, 5, 277 – 300 : 466.
  2. Balanotis euryptera, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1894b: 476. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14681122#page/518/mode/1up
  3. Parorthaga euryptera MeyrickHampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs.pg. 111, #4436 and fig 65. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124944#page/142/mode/1up
  4. Tanagal, V., Murthy, M.S. and Reddy, P.M., 2023. A checklist of Indian Epipaschiinae (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Pyralidae). Entomon, 48(1): 51-62. Lists distribution as Kerala. 
  5. http://www.jpmoth.org/Pyralidae/Epipaschiinae/Noctuides_melanophia.html
  6. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1336517-Noctuides-melanophia

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Noctuides melanophia Staudinger, 1892 – . 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/noctuides-melanophia, accessed 2025/04/23.