Taxonomic Information
Glyphodes Guenée, 1854 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Glyphodes bicolor (Swainson, 1821). India.
Glyphodes bivitralis Guenée, 1854. India.
Glyphodes caesalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India: Mainland India, Andamans.
Glyphodes callizona (Meyrick, 1894). Myanmar.
Glyphodes canthusalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; India: Mainland India, Andaman Islands.
Glyphodes chilka Moore, 1888. India: Bengal.
Glyphodes cupripennalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes dysallactalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes ernalis Swinhoe, 1894. India.
Glyphodes lacustralis Moore, 1867. India. (Verification needed)
Glyphodes microta Meyrick, 1890. Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes minimalis Hampson, 1896. Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes negatalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India.
Glyphodes naralis Felder, Felder & Rogenhofer, [1875]. India: Sikkim.
Glyphodes nilgirica Hampson, 1896. India: Nilgiris.
Glyphodes onychinalis (Guenée, 1854). Sri Lanka; India.
Glyphodes orbiferalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes prothymalis Swinhoe, 1892. India: Meghalaya.
Glyphodes pulverulentalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar; India: Assam.
Glyphodes proximalis Snellen, 1899. India.
Glyphodes pyloalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India.
Glyphodes vertumnalis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Glyphodes westermani Snellen, 1877. Bhutan.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Paschimbanga | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
Glyphodes bicolor (Swainson, 1821): Alstonia scholaris, Carissa carandas (Apocynaceae), Artocarpus integer, Ficus benghalensis (Moraceae), Desmodium oojeinense (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Botis bicolor Swainson, 1821. Zool. Illustr. (1) 2: pl. 77, f. 2. Plate at https://archive.org/details/zoologicalillust02swai/page/n71/mode/1up?view=theater
- Glyphodes diurnalis Guenée, 1854. Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 8: 294.
- Glyphodes parvalis Walker, [1866]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 34: 1355. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/1355/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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. 358, # 5046.
- Goff, R. African Moths. http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/CRAMBIDAE/SPILOMELINAE/glyphodes%20bicolor.html [accessed 25 November 2016]
- jpmoth.org. Digital Moths of Asia. http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/50_PYRALOIDEA/Crambidae/63.9_Pyraustinae/Glyphodes/Glyphodes%20bicolor/Glyphodes%20bicolor.htm [accessed 25 November 2016]
- Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P. D. N. 2007. BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (website). http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=273234 [accessed 25 November 2016]
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/bicolor.html
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Glyphodes bicolor (Swainson, 1821) – . 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/glyphodes-bicolor, accessed 2023/06/03.