This is a list of moths of the family
Uraniidae that are found in
India. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full
List of moths of India
The following is a list of the moths of India. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 species of moths exist in India.
Family lists for Indian moths
* Alucitidae
* Bombycidae
* Brachodidae
* Brahmaeidae
* Choreutidae
* Cosmopterigidae
* ...
. This list is incomplete.
Subfamily
Auzeinae
The Auzeinae are a subfamily of the lepidopteran family Uraniidae
The Uraniidae are a family of moths containing four subfamilies, 90 genera, and roughly 700 species. The family is distributed throughout the tropics of the Americas, Africa an ...
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Decetia numicusaria''
(Walker, 1860)
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Decetia subobscurata''
Walker, 1862
Subfamily
Epipleminae
The Epipleminae or epiplemiine moths are a subfamily of the lepidopteran family Uraniidae. The subfamily was first described by George Hampson in 1892. They are the most diverse and widespread uraniid group, occurring mainly throughout the Pantr ...
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Chundana emarginata''
(Hampson, 1891)
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Dysaethria erasaria
''Dysaethria'' is a genus of moths in the family Uraniidae. It was described by Turner in 1911. The species of this genus occur mainly in Asia and in Australia.
Species
*'' Dysaethria albidaria'' (Walker)
*'' Dysaethria albolilacina'' (Holloway ...
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(Christoph, 1881)
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Dysaethria flavistriga
''Dysaethria'' is a genus of moths in the family Uraniidae. It was described by Turner in 1911. The species of this genus occur mainly in Asia and in Australia.
Species
*'' Dysaethria albidaria'' (Walker)
*'' Dysaethria albolilacina'' (Holloway ...
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(Warren, 1901)
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Dysaethria grisea
''Dysaethria'' is a genus of moths in the family Uraniidae. It was described by Turner in 1911. The species of this genus occur mainly in Asia and in Australia.
Species
*'' Dysaethria albidaria'' (Walker)
*'' Dysaethria albolilacina'' (Holloway ...
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(Warren, 1896)
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Dysaethria lilacina''
(Moore, 887
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Events
By place
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Dysaethra quadricaudata''
(Walker, 1861)
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Epiplema fulvilinea
''Epiplema'' is a genus of moths in the family Uraniidae described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1855. A number of species have been reassigned to '' Europlema''.
Description
Palpi porrect (extending forward), projecting beyond ...
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Hampson, 1895
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Epiplema fuscifrons''
(Warren, 1896)
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Epiplema himala''
(Butler, 1880)
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Epiplema rhacina''
Swinhoe, 1917
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Europlema conchiferata
''Europlema conchiferata'' is a moth of the family Uraniidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1887. It is found in Fiji and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இ ...
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(Moore, 1887)
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Europlema desistaria
''Europlema desistaria'' is a species of moth of the family Uraniidae first described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Taiwan, Borneo, Sulawesi, Flores and Queensland
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(Walker, 1861)
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Europlema irrorata
''Europlema'' is a genus of moths in the family Uraniidae. The genus was erected by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1998.
Species
*'' Europlema bilobuncus'' Holloway, 1998
*'' Europlema conchiferata'' (Moore, 1887)
*'' Europlema desistaria'' (Walker, ...
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(Moore, 1887)
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Europlema semibrunnea
''Europlema'' is a genus of moths in the family Uraniidae. The genus was erected by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1998.
Species
*'' Europlema bilobuncus'' Holloway, 1998
*'' Europlema conchiferata'' (Moore, 1887)
*'' Europlema desistaria'' (Walker, ...
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(Pagenstecher, 1884)
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Eversmannia exornata''
(Eversmann, 1837)
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Monobolodes prunaria''
(Moore, 887
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Events
By place
Europe
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Oroplema oyamana
''Oroplema oyamana'' is a species of moth of the family Uraniidae. It is found in Korea (Jeju Island), Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest P ...
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(Matsumura, 1931)
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Oroplema plagifera''
(Butler, 1881)
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Oroplema simplex''
(Warren, 1899)
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Orudiza protheclaria''
Walker, 1861
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Phazaca erosioides
''Phazaca erosioides'' is a moth of the family Uraniidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics from Sri Lanka to New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu
Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, ...
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Walker, 1863
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Phazaca leucocera
''Phazaca leucocera'' is a species of moth of the family Uraniidae. It is found in Sri Lanka, southern India, China, Borneo and the Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smalle ...
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(Hampson, 1891)
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Phazaca theclata
''Phazaca theclata'' is a moth of the family Uraniidae. It was first described by Achille Guenée in 1858. It is known from Africa south of the Sahara, from Saudi Arabia, as well as from India, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Description
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(Guenée, 1857)
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Phazaca unicauda
''Phazaca'' is a genus of moths in the family Uraniidae first described by Walker in 1863.
Description
Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head. Antennae thickened and flattened in male. Forewings broad. The outer margin evenly curved. Vein 5 fr ...
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(Dudgeon, 1905)
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Pseudhyria rubra''
(Hampson, 1891)
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Rhombophylla edentata''
(Hampson, 1895)
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Rhombophylla rectimarginata''
(Hampson, 1902)
Subfamily
Microniinae
Microniinae is a subfamily of the lepidopteran family Uraniidae.
Genera
*'' Acropteris'' Geyer in Hübner, 1832
*'' Aploschema'' Warren, 1897
*'' Dissoprumna'' Warren, 1897
*'' Micronia'' Guenée, 1857
*'' Pseudomicronia'' Moore, 887/small>
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Acropteris ciniferaria
''Acropteris ciniferaria'' is a moth of the family Uraniidae first described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in Oriental tropics of India, Sri Lanka, to Sulawesi and Lesser Sundas.
Description
Its wings are typically white with a creamy ...
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(Walker, 1866)
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Micronia aculeata
''Micronia aculeata'' is a species of moth of subfamily Microniinae of family Uraniidae found in India and Sri Lanka towards Sulawesi. It was first described by Achille Guenée in 1857.
Description
Its wingspan is 42–50 mm. Head, tho ...
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Guenée, 1857
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Pseudomicronia advocataria
''Pseudomicronia advocataria'' is a moth of the family Uraniidae first described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in the Philippines, Sundaland, the Andaman Islands, India, Taiwan, South China and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ...
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(Walker, 1861)
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Pseudomicronia fraterna
''Pseudomicronia fraterna'' is a moth of the family Uraniidae. It is found in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), fo ...
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Moore
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Strophidia caudata''
(Fabricius, 1781)
Subfamily Uraniinae
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Urapteroides astheniata
''Urapteroides astheniata'' is a moth of the family Uraniidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in south-east Asia, from India, Sri Lanka to Fiji, including New Guinea and the tropical north of Australia.
Description
The ...
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(Guenée, 1857)
See also
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Uraniidae
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List of moths of India
The following is a list of the moths of India. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 species of moths exist in India.
Family lists for Indian moths
* Alucitidae
* Bombycidae
* Brachodidae
* Brahmaeidae
* Choreutidae
* Cosmopterigidae
* ...
References
Markku Savela's ftp.funet.fiSohn & Yen, 2005. A Taxonomic Revision of the Korean Epipleminae (Lepidoptera: Uraniidae), with Phylogenetic Comments on the Involved Genera. - Zoological Studies 44(1):44-70
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