Episteme vetula (Geyer, 1832)

Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet, 2025, A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India, Zootaxa 5669 (1), pp. 1-225 : 26

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Episteme vetula
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13. Episteme vetula View in CoL (Geyer, [1832]: 17, f. 657–658) ( Heraclia )

TL: Java ( Indonesia)

= Eusemia bijugata Walker, 1862: 85 (TL: Borneo, Malaysia)

= Eusemia communicans Walker, [1865] 1864: 50 (TL: Cambodia)

= Eusemia irenea Boisduval, 1874: 84 (TL: Timor)

= Eusemia darocana Druce, 1894: 23 (TL: Mindanao ( Philippines))

= Eusemia solicita Swinhoe, 1902: 495 (TL: Sandakan, Kina Balu View in CoL ( Malaysia))

= Eusemia vetula palavanica Jordan, 1912: 3 (TL: Palawan ( Philippines))

Distribution. India: Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim (Butler 1875, Hampson 1901, Sondhi et al. 2025). Global: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia ( Java), Kazakhstan, Malaysia (Borneo), Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Timor, Vietnam ( Geyer [1832], Walker 1865, Boisduval 1874, Swinhoe 1902, Jordan 1912, Kononenko & Pinratana 2013).

Remark: Worldwide three subspecies, E. v. vetula (TL: Java, Indonesia), E. v. fasciatrix ( Westwood, 1848) (TL: Assam, India) and E. v. communis (Butler, 1875) (TL: Silhet [ Sylhet, Bangladesh]).

Genus Exsula View in CoL Jordan, in Rothschild & Jordan, 1896: 35

Type species: Eusemia dentatrix Westwood, 1848: 66 , by original designation.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Episteme

Loc

Episteme vetula

Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet 2025
2025
Loc

Exsula

Rothschild, W. & Jordan, K. 1896: 35
1896
Loc

Eusemia darocana

Druce, H. 1894: 23
1894
Loc

Eusemia irenea

Boisduval, J. B. A. D. de 1874: 84
1874
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