Gadessa attemptalis (Snellen, 1890) -

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Gadessa attemptalis -


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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh11
Assam
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Chandigarh
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Delhi
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Jammu and Kashmir
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Uttarakhand
West Bengal1
Total12
  1. Botys attemptalis Snellen, 1890. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. Pg. 590. TL: Sikkim. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50993#page/626/mode/1up
  2. 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. 310, # 4906. Incorrectly treats Botys attemptalis as a synonym of Dichrosis nelusalis, which is dull grey, and attemptalis is “glossy, uniform luteous”. 
  3. Gadessa attemptalis; Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Image 500. Incorrectly identified as Syllepte nigriflava (Swinhoe, 1894). 
  4. https://www.facebook.com/groups/microlepsasia/permalink/1308524062825093/?app=fbl
  5. https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/oum-catalogue-385182 These individuals seem to have faded with time, and are no longer “glossy, uniform luteous”, though the markings are good. 

Note: Lepindex lists as Dichocrocis attemptalis Snellen, 1890

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Gadessa attemptalis (Snellen, 1890) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/Gadessa-attemptalis, accessed 2024/05/09.