Taxonomic Information
Peucela* Ragonot, 1891 species known from India:
Peucela drapesalis (Walker, 1859). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. Listed by some authors in the genus Tegulifera.
Peucela pallivittata (Moore, 1888). India: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Peucela subresectalis (Snellen, 1890).
*Placement of genus is provisional; some authors place this in the genus Pyralis Linnaeus, [1758].
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/795029-Tegulifera-drapesalis for Tegulifera drapesalis.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Peucela subresectalis -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Total | 1 |
- Asopia subresectalis Snellen, 1890. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, pg. 565. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50993#page/601/mode/1up
- 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. 152, # 4529. Listed as Pyralis subresectalis.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 169. Listed as Peucela subrectalis.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/927116764299160/posts/1479533715724126 for discussion on this species. Lepindex & http://globiz.pyraloidea.org [accessed 21 July 2021] list genus as Pyralis, though the former states that M. Schaffer, 1995 transferred the species to Peucela Ragonot, 1891.
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Peucela subresectalis (Snellen, 1890) – . 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/peucela-subresectalis, accessed 2023/05/30.