Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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The species is discriminated from P. flavabdomena (Cai, 1983), P. yana (Cai, 1983) and
P. jade Solovyev & Witt, sp. n. by brown hindwings, extremely similar externally to P. hainana (Cai, 1983) and P. foliola Solovyev & Witt, sp. n.(Colour plate 11, fig. 4), but the male genitalia are diagnostic. The valva has two basal processes of the same size approximately; the juxta has very long processes, as long as the length of the valva, in contrary to similar species (Genitalia plate 6, fig. 3).
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Thespea bicolor (Walker, 1855): Saccharum officinarum (Poaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae. Pg. 390, # 868.
- Solovyev A. V., 2014. Parasa Moore auct. Phylogenetic review of the complex from the Palaearctic and Indomalayan regions (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Proc. Mus. Witt Munich 1. Munich– Vilnius, 240 pp.
- http://www.thaibugs.com/wp-content/gallery/limacodidae/Limacodidae%20Parasa%20sp.%20nr%20bicolor.jpg
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=646369 [accessed 10 June 2017]
Note: Genus revised from Parasa to Thespea by Solovyev (2014).
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Thespea bicolor (Walker, 1855) – . 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/thespea-bicolor, accessed 2025/04/23.