Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Arna bipunctapex -
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Similar species: Arna apicalis Walker, 1855. Sri Lanka
Arna apicalis has the FW yellow marginal area narrower, & HW yellow marginal band reduced to a fine line.
Undescribed Arna sp. in MON, Part 3, Pl. 81/15.
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| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Arna bipunctapex (Hampson, 1891): Camellia sinensis (Theaceae), Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae), Syzygium cumini (Myrtaceae), Glochidion heyneanum (Phyllanthaceae), Ipomoea batatas (Convolvulaceae), Morus alba (Moraceae), Planchonia careya (Lecythidaceae)?, Pyrus (Rosaceae), Ricinus communis, Triadica sebifera, Vernicia cordata (Euphorbiaceae), Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae), Terminalia myriocarpa, Terminalia paniculata, Terminalia elliptica (Combretaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD:Somena bipunctapex Hampson, 1891. Illustration of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum Part 8, pg. 57, Pl. 140 fig 13. Text at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft08brituoft/page/57/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft08brituoft/page/n156/mode/1up?view=theater
- Euproctis bipunctapex Hampson, 1891 in 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 527 p - 333 fig. pg 484, #1103.
- Euproctis bipunctapex Hampson, 1891 In: Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 81/14.
- Wang, H.S., Wang, M. and Fan, X.L., 2011. Notes on the tribe Nygmiini (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from Nanling National Nature Reserve, with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 2887(1), pp.57-68.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-5/nygmiini/nygmiini_1_1.php
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Arna bipunctapex (Hampson, 1891) – . 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/arna-bipunctapex, accessed 2025/04/24.