Taxonomic Information
Orphnophanes Lederer, 1863 species reported from India:
Orphnophanes eucerusalis (Walker, 1859) Sikkim
Orphnophanes laevalis (Warren, 1896) Meghalaya
Orphnophanes thoasalis (Walker, 1859) Sikkim, Andamans
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Orphnophanes eucerusalis -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
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| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Botys eucerusalis, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, 19 pg 1002 - https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/213193#page/216/mode/1up
- Fauna of British India, Moths of India, Vol 4 pg 231 #4726 - https://archive.org/details/moths04hamp/page/231/mode/1up?view=theater
- Listed as Orphnophanes productalis in Lederer, 1863; Wien. ent. Monats. 7 (12): 428, Plate 16, fig. 7.
- Taxonomic review of the superfamily Pyraloidea in Bhutan, Irungbam et al. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2016.06.004. Fig 10D.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1093556-Orphnophanes-eucerusalis
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/eucerusalis.html
All links accessed on 13 Jan 2024.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Orphnophanes eucerusalis (Walker, 1859) – . 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/orphnophanes-eucerusalis, accessed 2024/05/09.