Taxonomic Information
Epicrocis Zeller, 1848 species known from India and Sri Lanka.
Epicrocis festivella Zeller, 1848
Epicrocis hilarella Ragonot, 1888
Epicrocis gratella (Walker, 1863). Sri Lanka.
Epicrocis oegnusalis (Walker, 1859). Nepal; Sri Lanka; Myanmar; Bangladesh; India: Andamans.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 3 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
- OD : Pyralis oegnusalis Walker, 1859. Pyralides. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, London 19: 799–1036, pg 905.
- Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs.pg 85 #4375 & Fig 53 as Epicrocis lateritialis.
- Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs. pg 85 #4376 (synonym of oegnusalis, possibly the female).
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl 143.26.
- Qi, M. and Bae, Y.S., 2015. Taxonomic study of the genus Epicrocis Zeller (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) in Cambodia, with description of a new species. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 18(3), pp.577-581.
- Liu, H. and Li, H., 2020. Review of the genus Epicrocis Zeller, 1848 in China (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae), with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 4834 (1): 133–144.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/338085-Epicrocis-oegnusalis
- http://www.jpmoth.org/Pyralidae/Phycitinae/Epicrocis_oegnusalis.html
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Epicrocis oegnusalis (Walker, 1859) – . 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/epicrocis-oegnusalis, accessed 2024/04/19.