Taxonomic Information
Amata Fabricius, 1807 species known from India.
Amata aurea (Swinhoe, 1908), India (Meghalaya).
Amata aureola (Swinhoe, 1902), India (Meghalaya).
Amata bicincta (Kollar, [1844]), India (Himalaya, NW India, Sikkim, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Punjab).
Amata chlorocera (Hampson, 1892), India (Nagaland).
Amata cingulata (Weber, 1801), India (India, Andamans).
Amata compta (Walker, 1869), India (Sikkim, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh).
Amata congenita Hampson, 1918, India (Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris, Shevaroys)).
Amata cyssea Hampson, 1898, India (Throughout Continental India (Kirti & Gill 2008), Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris), Meghalaya, Bihar, Karnataka).
Amata divisa divisa (Walker, 1854), India (Meghalaya, Sikkim, Guwahati, Nagaland).
Amata divisa sikkima (Strand, 1917), India (Sikkim, Meghalaya).
Amata elongata (Hampson, 1900), India (South India, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra).
Amata emma (Butler, 1876), India (Assam).
Amata extensa (Walker, 1866), India (Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu (Nilgiri Hills)).
Amata flavifrons (Hampson, 1892), India (Meghalaya).
Amata edwardsii edwardsii (Butler, 1876), India (Assam).
Amata gelatina (Hampson, 1891), India (Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris)).
Amata georgina (Butler, 1876), India (Continental India (Goa, Karnataka, NW Himalayas)).
Amata huebneri (Boisduval, 1829), India (Throughout India).
Amata hydatina (Butler, 1876), India (Sikkim, West Bengal, Central India, Arunachal Pradesh, Punjab).
Amata insueta (Swinhoe, 1892), India (West Bengal).
Amata khasiana (Butler 1876), India (Meghalaya).
Amata leucosoma (Butler, 1876), India (Jammu & Kashmir).
Amata lucina (Butler, 1876), India (Sikkim, West Bengal, Meghalaya).
Amata luteifascia (Hampson, 1892), India (Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh).
Amata madurensis (Hampson, 1901), India (Tamil Nadu).
Amata minor (Warren, 1888), India (Uttarakhand, Punjab).
Amata multifasciata (Hampson, 1892), India (Sikkim, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya).
Amata multigutta (Walker, 1854), India (Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland).
Amata ochreipuncta (Hampson, 1892), India (Orissa).
Amata passalis (Fabricius, 1781), India (Throughout India); Sri Lanka. Form montana has larger spots.
Amata pectoralis (Walker, 1854), India (Andamans).
Amata phoenicozona (Hampson, 1897), India (Andamans).
Amata pleurasticta (Hampson, 1901), India (Karnataka).
Amata sperbius (Fabricius, 1787), India (Sikkim, Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Manipur, West Bengal, Nagaland).
Amata submarginalis (Walker, 1869), India (Sikkim, Meghalaya).
Amata syntomoides (Butler, 1876), India (NW Himalayas).
Amata unifascia (Hampson, 1892), India (Sikkim).
Amata verecunda (Swinhoe, 1902), India (Assam).
Amata vitrea (Walker, 1856), India (Assam, Manipur).
Amata wimberleyi (Swinhoe, 1889), India (Andamans).
Amata xanthograpta Hampson, 1914, India (Kashmir).
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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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | ||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | 1 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Pondicherry | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 13 | 28 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 7 |
Amata passalis (Fabricius, 1781): Cosmos sulphureus (Compositae), Cajanus cajan, Vigna unguiculata (Fabaceae), Ipomoea sp. (Convolvulaceae), Santalum album (Santalaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Zygaena passalis Fabricius, 1781. Spec. Ins. 2: 159
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig, Pg. 219, no 442.
- http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Amata-passalis.php
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/332480-Amata-passalis
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Amata passalis (Fabricius, 1781) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.80. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/amata-passalis, accessed 2024/10/13.