Taxonomic Information
Similiar species:
Comostola cedilla, Comostola enodata; extralimital species, best separated by male genitalia.
Comostola Meyrick, 1888 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Comostola caerulea Warren, 1893. Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola cedilla Prout, 1917. Andaman Is.
Comostola chlorargyra (Walker, 1861). India sub-region.
Comostola dispansa (Walker, 1861). Sri Lanka.
Comostola dyakaria (Walker, 1861). Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004. Uttarakhand (TL: Bhimtal), Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Comostola hypotyphla Prout, 1917. Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh.
Comostola inops Prout, 1912. Kashmir: Lidda Valley, Lidderwat, 6700ft, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola laesaria (Walker, 1861). India; Sri Lanka (TL).
Comostola leucosticta Yazaki, 1993. India: Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal (TL).
Comostola maculata (Moore, 1868). West Bengal.
Comostola meritaria (Walker, 1861). India; Sri Lanka (TL).
Comostola multimaculata (Pajni & Walia, 1984). Himachal Pradesh, Nauni.
Comostola mundata Warren, 1896. Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Comostola ovifera (Warren, 1893). India: Sikkim; Tibet.
Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866). South India.
Comostola quantula (Swinhoe, 1886), Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Comostola subtiliaria (Bremer, 1864). Himalayas.
Comostola subtiliaria demeritaria Prout, 1917. Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Comostola turgescens (Prout, 1917). Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola virago Prout, 1926. Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Comostola chlorargyra -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Total | 1 |
- OD: Comibaena chlorargyra Walker, 1886. List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 22: 577.
- Seitz, A. (Ed.). 1920-34. The Indo-Australian Geometridae. The Macro Lepidoptera of the World, Vol. 12. Pg. 131, Pl. 14 K.
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_48_7.php [accessed 02 December 2019]
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/85_GEOMETROIDEA/04_GEOMETRIDAE/07_Geometrinae/47_Comostola/Comostola%20chlrargyra/Comostola%20chlrargyra.htm [accessed 02 December 2019]
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/geom/chlorargyra.html [accessed 02 December 2019]
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Comostola chlorargyra (Walker, 1861) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.50. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/comostola-chlorargyra, accessed 2023/05/28.