Taxonomic Information
Stictane Hampson, 1900 species known from India and Sri Lanka.
Stictane fractilinea (Snellen, 1880). India: Sikkim, Karnataka, Assam, Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka.
Stictane fusca (Hampson, 1901). Sri Lanka (TL).
Stictane obliquilinea Hampson, 1900. Sri Lanka(TL); India: Karnataka (?).
Stictane rectilinea (Snellen, 1879). India: Goa, Karnataka, Mizoram, Meghalaya.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Stictane rectilinea -
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- OD: Pitane rectilinea Snellen, 1879. Tijdschr. Ent. 22: 91, pl. 10, f. 7; TL: Celebes Text at https://archive.org/details/tijdschriftvoore22187879nede/page/91/mode/1up?view=theater
- Plate at https://archive.org/details/tijdschriftvoore22187879nede/page/n304/mode/1up?view=theater
- Cerny, K. & A. Pinratana. 2009. Moths of Thailand, Vol. 6, Arctiidae. 283 pp. pg. 7, pl 1/5.
- Kirti, J.S., Joshi, R. and Singh, N., 2013. Taxonomic studies and new faunistic records of two species of the genus Stictane Hampson (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from India. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 56(1), pp.1-7. pg 5.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1. Nature Books of India, New Delhi, 205 pp.pg. 160-161.
- Dubatolov, V.V., Kishida, Y. and Wang, M., 2012. New records of lichen-moth from the Nanling Mts., Guangdong, South China, with descriptions of new genera and species (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). Tinea, 22(1), pp.25-52. Stictane chinesica Draudt, 1931, earlier treated as a subspecies of rectilinea, is now considered a good species (extralimital to India). Fig. 52.
- Singh, N. ,Joshi, R.,Kirti, J. S.,Bisht, S. S., & H. S. Param. 2021. A catalogue of Indian Arctiinae (Erebidae, Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 5058 (1): 001–118.
- Gurule, S.A. and Brookes, R.D. 2021. A preliminary study of moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of Goa University Campus, Goa. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 121(1), pp.101-116. Pl 5/116.
Note: Kirti et al (2013), Singh et al. (2021) reported this species from Mizoram and Meghalaya. Gurule & Brookes (2021) reported this species from the Western Ghats in Goa. It needs to be investigated and verified that the Western Ghat individuals are indeed S. rectilinea.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Stictane rectilinea (Snellen, 1879) – . 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/stictane-rectilinea, accessed 2025/04/23.