Taxonomic Information
List of Acosmeryx Boisduval, [1875] known from India.
Acosmeryx anceus (Stoll, 1781). India: Assam (Arandhara et al.,2017) Jharkhand (Singh et al.,2018), Karnataka (Ghoparde et al., 2013), Kerala (Sondhi et al., 2017).
Acosmeryx akanshi Melichar,Řezáč,Manjunatha & Horecký, 2014. India: Kerala (Sondhi et al., 2017), Tamil Nadu (Iyer and Kitching, 2019), Maharashtra.
Acosmeryx castanea Rothschild & Jordan,1903. India: Sikkim Himalaya region (Khan and Raina, 2017).
Acosmeryx naga (Moore, 1858). India: Punjab (Singh and Kaur, 2017), Sikkim Himalaya (Khan and Raina, 2017), Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh.
Acosmeryx omissa Rothschild & Jordan,1903. India: Himalayan region (Sanyal et al., 2018); West Bengal (Shah, 2016), Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland.
Acosmeryx pseudonaga Butler,1881. India: Sikkim (Kitching, 2020), Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh.
Acosmeryx sericeus (Walker, 1856). India: Meghalaya; (Bortolin et al., 1998), Sikkim (Kitching, 2020), Himalayan region (Sanyal et al.,2018), West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh.
Acosmeryx shervillii Boisduval, 1875. India: Assam (Arandhara et al., 2017, Karnataka (Melichar, 2012), Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu.
Acosmeryx sinjaevi Brechlin & Kitching, 1998. India: Arunachal Pradesh (?).
Acosmeryx socrates Boisduval, 1875. India: Himalayan region (Sanyal et al., 2018), Karnataka (Ghoparde et al., 2013).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Previously known only from southern China to N Vietnam.
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 |
- http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/~rathreya/MothSph/MothSph_Acosmeryx_sinjaevi_images.html [accessed 30 August 2016]
- http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/a_sin.htm [accessed 30 August 2016]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Acosmeryx sinjaevi Brechlin & Kitching, 1998 – Southern Gliding Moth. In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/acosmeryx-sinjaevi, accessed 2025/08/26.