Taxonomic Information
Pericyma Herrich-Schäffer, [1851] species from India. Most of the species display polymorphism.
Pericyma albidens (Walker, 1865) (Moepa). S. India.
Pericyma cruegeri (Butler, 1886) (Homoptera). India.
Pericyma detersa (Walker, 1865) (Homoptera). N India.
Pericyma glaucinans (Guenée, 1852) (Alamis). India, Bangladesh.
Pericyma umbrina (Guenée, 1852) (Alamis). India.
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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| Karnataka | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Total | 3 | 1 | 1 |
- Moepa albidens Walker, 1865. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 33: 916; TL: South Hindostan. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso3334brit#page/916/mode/1up
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 87/22.
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg. 476, # 2445 as Homoptera albidens.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=490066 [accessed 14 May 2021] for albidens.
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Pericyma albidens (Walker, 1865) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.51. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/pericyma-albidens, accessed 2023/06/09.