Lepidoptera Indica

It has been considered the magnum opus of its author, Frederic Moore, assistant curator at the museum of the East India Company.

The butterfly collections that were described in this work, many of which were previously undescribed[1] had been made by additions from numerous correspondents and collectors in the Civil and Military services from across India.

Le Mesurier, Major-Gen. G. Ramsay, Lt.-Col. H H G Godwin-Austin (sic), Captain R. Bayne Reed, W. B Farr, G. H. Wilkinson, Dr. A. Leith, Dr. J. Shortt, Capt.

J. H. Hocking (Dharamsala),[2] Mrs. F. A. de Roepstorff (for collections from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands made by her husband who was killed in 1883[3]), A. Lindsay, G.A.J.

Moore often created multiple genera for members of the same species, often in the same volume, leading to difficulties for early taxonomists to establish priority.

[6][7] James Cecil Mottram and his colleagues analyzed the statistical distributions of the extent and colours of butterflies, making use of the plates from Lepidoptera Indica.