Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea

Family

Erebidae

Subfamily

Erebinae

Tribe/Subtribe

Genus

Speiredonia Hübner, [1823] 1816

Type Species

Phalaena feducia Stoll, 1790: 160, by subsequent designation by Desmarest, in Chenu, 1857: 130 (but cited for <i>Spiredonia</i>, an unjustified emendation)

= Spiredonia Agassiz, 1847 (An unjustified emendation of Speiredonia)
= Sericia Guenée, in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852: 172 (TS: Sericia spectans Guenée, in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852

Species/Subspecies

Speiredonia obscura Cramer, 1780 (Phalaena)

Type Locality

Coromandel Coast [Tamil Nadu, India]; Java

= Phalaena zamis Stoll, [1790]: 162 (TL: Coromandel Coast)
= Sericia diops Walker, 1858: 1297 (TL: Port Essington)
= Speiredonia retrahens Walker, 1858: 1294 (TL: Ceylon)
= Ommatophora albifascia Walker, 1865: 947 (TL: Ceylon)
= Speiredonia conspicua Felder, 1874: 113 (TL: Andamans Island)
= Sericia sumbana Swinhoe, 1918: 90 (TL: Samba Island)
= Sericia layardi Hampson, 1926: 121 (TL: New Caledonia)

Distribution

States/Union Territories

Kerala, Tamil Nadu

Bio Geographic Zones/Zones

Coasts, Deccan Peninsula, South India, Western Ghats

Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea

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