Taxonomic Information
List of Scopelodes Westwood, 1841 species known from India.
Scopelodes contracta Walker, 1855. India
Scopelodes kwangtungensis Hering, 1931. Nepal; Bangladesh; Myanmar; India: North India.
Scopelodes sericea Butler, 1880. Myanmar; India.
Scopelodes testacea Butler, 1886. Sri Lanka; Nepal; Bhutan; Bangladesh; Myanmar; India.
Scopelodes unicolor Westwood, 1841. Myanmar.
Scopelodes venosa Walker, 1855. Nepal; Bhutan; Bangladesh; Myanmar; India.
Scopelodes vulpina Moore, 1879. Nepal; Myanmar; India: Khasia Hills, Meghalaya, Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Scopelodes witti Solovyev & Giusti, 2017. India: Assam, Andamans.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Scopelodes testacea from Limacodidae of Vietnam.
The species is distinguished externally from other Scopelodes Westwood, 1841 by the white tuft of labial palps with black apex; the hindwings are greyish yellow with weakly defined yellow veins as in S. venosa Walker, 1855; the forewings are dark (as illustrated) or light grayish brown with transverse postmedial light field (Colour plate 12, figs 3–5; Colour plate 17, fig. 8).
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Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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Delhi | |||||||||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
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Haryana | |||||||||||||
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Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
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Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | |||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
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Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | 3 | ||||||||||||
West Bengal | |||||||||||||
Total | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Scopelodes testacea Butler, 1886: Musa sp. (Musaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Scopelodes testacea Butler, 1886. Ill. typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln Br. Mus. 6 : 3, pl. 101, f. 5 at http://archive.org/stream/illustrationsoft06brituoft#page/3/mode/1up [accessed 27 September 2017]
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl 39/24.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=260915 [accessed 27 September 2017]
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/60_ZYGAENOIDEA/Limacodidae/19_Scopelodes/Scopelodes%20testacea/Scopelodes%20testacea.htm [accessed 27 September 2017]
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Scopelodes testacea Butler, 1886 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.80. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/scopelodes-testacea, accessed 2024/11/08.