Taxonomic Information
Alcis Curtis, 1826 species known from India.
Alcis admissaria (Guenée, [1858]). North India.
Alcis albifera (Moore, 1888. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Alcis albilnea Sato, 1993. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Alcis arisema Prout, 1934. India: Arunachal Pradesh (Tawang, Tale WLS).
Alcis athola (Prout, 1926). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Alcis decussata (Moore, 1868). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Alcis granitaria (Moore, 1888).India: Kashmir (Sind valley, Chamba).
Alcis holophaearia (Hampson, 1907). India: Kashmir (Dana), Punjab
Alcis imbecilis (Moore, 1888). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Alcis iterata Butler, 1886. NW India.
Alcis latifasciata (Warren, 1893). India: Sikkim.
Alcis maculata (Moore, 1868).India: Bengal.
Alcis macroclarata Sato, 1993. India: Bengal.
Alcis megaspilaria (Moore, 1867). India.
Alcis nigralbata Warren, 1893. India: Sikkim.
Alcis nigridorsaria (Guenée, 1858). India.
Alcis nilgirica Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris.
Alcis orbifer Warren, 1896. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Alcis perspicuata perspicuata (Moore, 1868). India: Bengal.
Alcis perspicuata vicana Moore, 1888. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Alcis pleniferata (Walker, [1863]). Bhutan.
Alcis prosoica (Wehrli, 1943). India:Himalayas.
Alcis periphracta (Prout, 1926). India: Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Alcis quadrifera (Walker, 1866). India: North India.
Alcis rufomagrinata (Moore, [1868]). India: Bengal.
Alcis semialba (Moore, 1888). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Alcis semiclarata (Walker, 1862). India: Sikkim, West Himalaya.
Alcis stictineura (Hampson, 1907).India: Kashmir (Rala, Koksar).
Alcis sublimis Butler, 1889. India: Himachal Pradesh (Kangra district, Dharamsala).
Alcis subnitida Warren, 1893. India: Sikkim (Tonglo), West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Alcis subolivacea (Hampson, 1907). India: Kashmir (Rala, Koksar).
Alcis subrufaria Warren, 1893. India: Sikkim.
Alcis tenera Warren, 1893.India: Sikkim.
Alcis trikotaria (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875).India: Himalayas.
Alcis variegata (Moore, 1888). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Uttarakhand.
Alcis variegata nebulosa (Swinhoe, 1891)
Alcis venustularia (Walker, 1866). North India.
Alcis vialis (Moore, 1888)is now treated as Harutalcis vialis (Moore, 1888).
Alcis atrostipata (Walker, 1862) is now treated as Harutalcis atrostipata (Walker, 1862).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- OD: Pseudocoremia variegata Moore, 1888, in Hewitson & Moore, Descr. new Indian lepid. Insects Colin late Mr Atkinson: 240. TL: Darjeeling. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26805#page/258/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs.pg. 266, # 3406 as Boarmia variegata. Hampson mentions Boarmia acaciaria (now Cleora acaciaria) as a similar species, which is quite different.
- Prout, L. B. 1927. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 31/938 as Cleora variegata.
- Cleora nebulosa, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 488.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 34: 16.
- Sato, R., 2008. Notes on Alcis variegata (Moore), A. colorifera (Prout)(Geometridae, Ennominae), and their allies from the Sunda Islands, with descriptions of two new species. Lepidoptera Science, 59(2), pp.171-185. Pg. 172, Fig. 1-9.
- Sanyal, A.K., Dey, P., Uniyal, V.P., Chandra, K. and Raha, A., 2017. Geometridae Stephens, 1829 from different altitudes in Western Himalayan Protected Areas of Uttarakhand, India.(Lepidoptera: Geometridae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología, 45(177), pp.143-163. Reports this species from Dehradun between 600-800 m.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=98849
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Alcis variegata (Moore, 1888) – . 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/alcis-variegata, accessed 2025/04/24.