Nagadeba indecoralis Walker, [1866] -

Taxonomic Information

Nagadeba Walker, [1866] species known from India.
Nagadeba cinerea Hampson, 1895. India: Sikkim, Nagaland, Andaman Is. 
Nagadeba indecoralis Walker, [1866]. India; Nepal; Myanmar; Sri Lanka. 
Nagadeba polia (Hampson, 1891). India: “Nilgiris”. 
Nagadeba castanealis Hampson, 1895. India: Sikkim, Nagaland.

Provisionally identified as Nagadeba indecoralis Walker, [1866]. See notes in Identification section on separation from Nagadeba cinerea Hampson, 1895. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Nagadeba indecoralis -


Nagadeba cinerea Hampson, 1895 is a very similar species with descriptions inadequate to separate from indecoralis reliably. Based on museum specimen images at https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/oum-catalogue-388743.
Based on these images, these individuals do not seem like N. cinerea, but N. indecoralis. All the images of N. cinerea are grey brown with no red-brown. Many of the cinerea images here have a pale medial band, that indecoralis lacks. 

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala1
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total11
  1. Nagadeba indecoralis Walker, [1866]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 34: 1521; TL: Java. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/1521/mode/1up?view=theater
  2. Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg. 52, # 2842. 
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 151, Pl. 90/25. 
  4. https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/oum-catalogue-388743
  5. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204878-Nagadeba-indecoralis

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Nagadeba indecoralis Walker, [1866] – . 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/Nagadeba-indecoralis, accessed 2024/05/05.