Taxonomic Information
Aedia species from the Indian subcontinent
Aedia acronyctoides (Guenée, 1852). (Widespread).
Aedia hollowayi Haruta, 1993. (Nepal).
Aedia intrahens (Walker, 1858). (NE Himalaya).
Aedia leucomelas (Linnaeus, 1758). (Widespread).
Aedia lichenea (Hampson, 1895). (Bhutan).
Aedia melanica (Hampson, 1926) (Sikkim).
Aedia perdicipennis (Moore, 1882). (NE Himalaya).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Best separated from Aedia acronyctoides by comparing genitalia/molecular phylogeny.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
- Phalaena (Noctua) leucomelas Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 518; TL: [Europe]. Text at https://archive.org/stream/carolilinnaeisys12linn#page/518/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg 482, # 2462 as Catephia acronyctoides.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 52/17 for Aedia leucomelas.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 90/7 for Aedia acronyctoides.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 261 pp. + 45 pls. Pl. 22/26-29.
- http://www.pyrgus.de/Aedia_leucomelas_en.html [accessed 19 October 2020]
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/acro/leucomelas.html
- http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Aedia_Leucomelas
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/339567-Aedia-leucomelas
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Aedia leucomelas complex (Linnaeus, 1758) – . 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/aedia-leucomelas-complex, accessed 2025/04/24.