Aedia leucomelas ( Linnaeus, 1758: 518 )

Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet, 2025, A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India, Zootaxa 5669 (1), pp. 1-225 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5669.1.1
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scientific name	Aedia leucomelas ( Linnaeus, 1758: 518 )
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Treatment

3. Aedia leucomelas ( Linnaeus, 1758: 518) View in CoL ( Phalaena ( Noctua ))

TL: Europe

= Catephia ramburii Boisduval, 1829: 7 (TL: Monspel (Europe))

= Noctua adepta Geyer, [1832] View in CoL : pl. 168, f. 792–793 (TL: South France (Europe)

= Anophia olivescens Guenée, 1852: 48 View in CoL (TL: Java ( Indonesia))

= Anophia epundoides Walker, 1865: 917 (TL: Canara (Karnataka, India))

= Anophia leucomelas thomae Prout, 1927: 223 View in CoL (TL: Sao Tome (Africa))

= Anophia leucomelas albodiscalis Roepke, 1932: 92 View in CoL (TL: Tonsea Lama (Sulawesi, Indonesia))

= Aedia diluta Roepke, 1941: 22 View in CoL (TL: Java ( Indonesia))

Distribution. India: Andaman Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Uttarakhand, (Raha 2017, Chandra et al. 2019, Sondhi et al. 2025). Global: Africa ( Nigeria, São Tome) Australia, Cambodia, China, Europe, Fiji, Indonesia (Java, Sulawesi), Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia (Borneo), Melanesia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam ( Kononenko & Pinratana 2013).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Noctuidae
Genus	Aedia