List of moths of India (Sesiidae)
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This article is a list of the moths of Family Psychidae which 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.
Genus Sphecodoptera Hampson
Genus Anthrenoptera Swinhoe
Genus Trilochana
Genus Macrotarsipus
Genus Ichneumenoptera
Genus Sesia Fabricius
Genus Adixoa
Genus Trichocerota
Genus Ceratocorema
Genus Aschistophleps
Genus Oligophlebia
Genus Melittia
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full List of moths of India.
Genus Trochilium Scopoli
- Trochilium ommatiaeforme MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Trochilium ignicolle HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus Sphecodoptera HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Sphecodoptera repanda Walker
- Sphecodoptera flavicollis HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus Anthrenoptera SwinhoeCharles SwinhoeColonel Charles Swinhoe was an English naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India...
- Anthrenoptera contracta Walker
Genus TrilochanaTrilochanaTrilochana is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family.-Species:*Trilochana scolioides Moore, 1879*Trilochana caseariae Yang & Wang, 1989*Trilochana chalciptera Hampson, 1919*Trilochana illustris Kallies & Arita, 1998...
MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Trilochana scolioides MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Trilochana ignicauda HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus Sciapteron Stand
- Sciapteron flammans HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Sciapteron grotei MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Sciapteron cgeruleimicans HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Sciapteron atkinsoni MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Sciapteron noblei SwinhoeCharles SwinhoeColonel Charles Swinhoe was an English naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India...
- Sciapteron sikkima MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Sciapteron metallicum HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Sciapteron gracile SwinhoeCharles SwinhoeColonel Charles Swinhoe was an English naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India...
- Sciapteron cupreivitta HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Sciapteron tenuimarginatiim HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus MacrotarsipusMacrotarsipusMacrotarsipus is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family.-Species:*Macrotarsipus albipunctus Hampson, [1893]*Macrotarsipus similis Arita & Gorbunov, 1995*Macrotarsipus africanus...
HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Macrotarsipus albipunctusMacrotarsipus albipunctusMacrotarsipus albipunctus is a moth of the Sesiidae family. It is known from Myanmar and central Vietnam. There are also records from Kenya and Malawi.The wingspan is 22-24 mm....
HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus IchneumenopteraIchneumenopteraIchneumenoptera is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family.-Species:*Ichneumenoptera auripes *Ichneumenoptera caudata Gorbunov & Arita, 1995*Ichneumenoptera daidai Gorbunov & Arita, 2000...
HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Ichneumenoptera auripes HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Ichneumenoptera flavicincta HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Ichneumenoptera xanthosoma HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Ichneumenoptera flavipalpus HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Ichneumenoptera ignifera HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus Sesia FabriciusJohan Christian FabriciusJohan Christian Fabricius was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others...
- Sesia quinquecincta HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Sesia minuta SwinhoeCharles SwinhoeColonel Charles Swinhoe was an English naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India...
- Sesia unicincta HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Sesia xanthosticta HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Sesia tricincta MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Sesia ? MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Sesia flavicaudata MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Sesia flavipes HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus AdixoaAdixoaAdixoa is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family.-Species:*Adixoa alterna *Adixoa leucocyanea *Adixoa tomentosa Schultze, 1908*Adixoa trizonata...
HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Adixoa alterna Walker
- Adixoa auricollum HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus TrichocerotaTrichocerotaTrichocerota is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family.-Species:*Trichocerota alectra *Trichocerota antigama Meyrick, 1926*Trichocerota brachythyra Hampson, 1919*Trichocerota cupreipennis...
HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Trichocerota ruficincta HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus CeratocoremaCeratocoremaCeratocorema is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family.-Species:*Ceratocorema antiphanopa *Ceratocorema cymbalistis *Ceratocorema hyalinum Kallies & Arita, 2001*Ceratocorema mesatma...
HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Ceratocorema postcristatum HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus AschistophlepsAschistophlepsAschistophleps is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family.-Species:*Aschistophleps lampropoda Hampson, [1893]*Aschistophleps longipoda Arita & Gorbunov, 2000*Aschistophleps metachryseis Hampson, 1895...
HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Aschistophleps lampropoda HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- mehssoides mehssoides HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus OligophlebiaOligophlebiaOligophlebia is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family.-Species:*Oligophlebia micra *Oligophlebia ulmi *Oligophlebia amalleuta Meyrick, 1910*Oligophlebia cristata Le Cerf, 1916b...
HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Oligophlebia nigralba HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
Genus MelittiaMelittiaMelittia is a genus of moths in the Sesiidae family.-Species:*Melittia eurytion *Melittia formosana Matsumura, 1911**Melittia formosana formosana Matsumura, 1911**Melittia formosana nagaii Arita & Gorbunov, 1997...
Walker
- Melittia astarte WestwoodJohn Obadiah WestwoodJohn Obadiah Westwood was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents.Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests....
- Melittia pellecta SwinhoeCharles SwinhoeColonel Charles Swinhoe was an English naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India...
- Melittia volatilis SwinhoeCharles SwinhoeColonel Charles Swinhoe was an English naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India...
- Melittia eurytion WestwoodJohn Obadiah WestwoodJohn Obadiah Westwood was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents.Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests....
- Melittia indica Butler
- Melittia grandis HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
- Melittia newara MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Melittia kuluana MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Melittia notabilis Switi
- Melittia gigantea MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
- Melittia chalciformis FabriciusJohan Christian FabriciusJohan Christian Fabricius was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others...
- Melittia nepcha MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
See also
- SesiidaeSesiidaeThe Sesiidae or clearwing moths are family of the Lepidoptera in which the wings partially have hardly any of the normal lepidopteran scales, leaving them transparent. The bodies are generally striped with yellow, red or white, sometimes very brightly, and they have simple antennae...
- MothsMothsMoths may refer to:* Gustav Moths , German rower* The Moths!, an English indie rock band* MOTHS, members of the Memorable Order of Tin Hats...
- LepidopteraLepidopteraLepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...
- List of moths of India