Mocis frugalis ( Fabricius, 1775 )

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 : 1114

Mocis frugalis ( Fabricius, 1775)

Noctua frugalis Fabricius 1775: 601 .

Chalciope lycopodia Geyer 1837: 25 .

Remigia translata Walker 1865: 1015 .

Remigia nigripunctata Warren 1913: 333 .

Mocis frugalis Fabricius — Holloway 1976: 31; Kobes 1985: 49.

Material examined. Table 3; Figure 7

Remarks. This taxon was treated as two distinct species: Afrotropical M. proverai Zilli (2000) ; Indo-Australian M. frugalis and recognized the old concept of M. frugalis by Zilli (200b). The pale ochreous brown colour of both wings similar in Trigonodes hyppasia whereas lacking the black triangles. Male genitalia with uncus broad, harpe well developed.