Aedia leucomelas ( Linnaeus, 1758: 518 )

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 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5669.1.1
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scientific name	Aedia leucomelas ( Linnaeus, 1758: 518 )
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Treatment

3. Aedia leucomelas ( Linnaeus, 1758: 518) View in CoL ( Phalaena ( Noctua ))

TL: Europe

= Catephia ramburii Boisduval, 1829: 7 (TL: Monspel (Europe))

= Noctua adepta Geyer, [1832] View in CoL : pl. 168, f. 792–793 (TL: South France (Europe)

= Anophia olivescens Guenée, 1852: 48 View in CoL (TL: Java ( Indonesia))

= Anophia epundoides Walker, 1865: 917 (TL: Canara ( Karnataka, India))

= Anophia leucomelas thomae Prout, 1927: 223 View in CoL (TL: Sao Tome (Africa))

= Anophia leucomelas albodiscalis Roepke, 1932: 92 View in CoL (TL: Tonsea Lama ( Sulawesi, Indonesia))

= Aedia diluta Roepke, 1941: 22 View in CoL (TL: Java ( Indonesia))

Distribution. India: Andaman Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Uttarakhand, (Raha 2017, Chandra et al. 2019, Sondhi et al. 2025). Global: Africa ( Nigeria, São Tome) Australia, Cambodia, China, Europe, Fiji, Indonesia ( Java, Sulawesi), Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia (Borneo), Melanesia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam ( Kononenko & Pinratana 2013).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Noctuidae
Genus	Aedia