Taxonomic Information
Viridistria Behounek & Kononenko, 2012 species known from India.
Viridistria striatovirens (Moore, 1883). India: Meghalaya (TL: Cherrapunji).
Viridistria thoracica (Moore, 1882). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Viridistria viridipicta (Hampson, 1902). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Viridistria thoracica -
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Similar species V. striatovirens and V. viridipicta:
The original description of viridipicta at The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 14, 2: 202 (Ancara) (Holotype: male: India, Meghalaya,Khasis [NHM (BMNH), London]) seems quite similar to thoracica.
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- OD: Donda thoracica Moore, F. 1879. Descriptions of new Indian lepidopterous insects from the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson. Asiatic Society of Bengal. Pg 161, Pl. 5/7. Text at https://archive.org/stream/descriptionsofne00hewi#page/n6/mode/1up
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=573998
- Behounek, G. & V. S. Kononenko, 2012. A revision of the "Belciana" viridipicta (Hampson, 1902) species group with description of a new genus and two new species from East Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae). Revision of Pantheinae, Contribution VII. Zootaxa, 3590: 37-50.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Viridistria thoracica (Moore, 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/viridistria-thoracica, accessed 2025/04/23.