Eudocima phalonia ( Linnaeus, 1763 )

Sivasankaran, Kuppusamy, Anand, Sekar, Mathew, Pratheesh & Ignacimuthu, Savarimuthu, 2017, Checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats, India, Check List 13 (6), pp. 1101-1120 : 1108-1109

Eudocima phalonia ( Linnaeus, 1763)

Phalaena (Noctua) phalonia Linnaeus 1763: 28 .

Phalaena fullonia Clerck [1764] : 48.

Phalaena (Attacus) fullonica Linnaeus 1767: 812 .

Noctua dioscoreae Fabricius 1775: 593 .

Phalaena (Noctua) pomona Cramer [1775] : 122.

Ophideres princeps Boisduval 1832: 245 .

Ophideres obliterans Walker 1857: 1229 .

Othreis fullonia Clerck — Holloway 1976: 36.

Material examined. Table 3.

Remarks. Eudocima phalonia is a senior synonym of E. fullonia reinstated by Zill and Hogenes (2002). The species name E. fullonia was misspelled as E. fullonica by Linnaeus, 1767. Sexes are dimorphic. Males with usually lineated forewings and females with much more variable

marks and red-brown specks. Female is having the triangular white mark usually present on the postmedial line.