Lophoptera illucida ( Walker, 1865 )

Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Kuni, Nikhil, 2022, First report of Lophoptera trigonoprocessa Qi & Xue (Lepidoptera, Euteliidae, Stictoperinae) from India, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (3), pp. 411-419 : 416

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.8.3.411
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F264D833-34CB-4F88-96CB-C676BC9723E8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17020636
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4E7A87DE-FFAE-FF81-E445-FDB6E02B1B51
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Lophoptera illucida ( Walker, 1865 )
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Lophoptera illucida ( Walker, 1865) View in CoL ( Figs 5, 6, 13, 14, 15)

Stictoptera illucida Walker, 1865:918 View in CoL .

Noctua abortiva Herrich-Schäffer, 1869:4 .

Material examined: INDIA - Jharkhand, Koderma, Meghatari, 20.ix.2014, 1♀, leg. N. Singh; Saranda Forest Division, Kiribru, 13.ix.2014, 1♀, leg. N. Singh; East Singhbhum , Dalma WLS, Pindrabera, 12.vii.2021, 2♀, leg. R. Joshi ; INDIA - Bihar, Bodhgaya, Goutam Buddha WLS, Lohawar Hill , 08.viii.2018, 1♂, leg. R. Joshi .

Distribution: Orissa, Punjab ( Hampson, 1894), Jharkhand, Bihar (present study); China ( Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet), Korea, India, Vietnam, Burma, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia ( Qi et al., 2011).

Remarks. The species shows morpho-variation in adults. Forewing with a black semicircular dot or inverted V-shaped patch in the middle of dorsum. Finger-like short medial costal process running parallel to valva and inverted triangular saccus in male genitalia is diagnostic for the species.