Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866) -

Subspecies in India

 

Taxonomic Information

Similiar species:

Comostola turgescens at http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_48_10.php

Both C. turgescens and C. pyrrhogona have pale blue-green wings with marginal red beading. At the forewing tornus this is narrow with a slight cornute extension in Bornean pyrrhogona but conspicuously broadened in C. turgescens Prout. (Vide Moths of Borneo). These species are best separated by examining 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. 

Conservation and Special status

 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh1
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa1
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka1
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra1
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu1
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total1122

Other Notes

 

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/comostola-pyrrhogona, accessed 2024/04/19.