Taxonomic Information
Asota Hübner, [1819] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Asota canaraica Moore, 1878. India: Kerala, Karnataka (TL " Canara"), Maharashtra
Asota caricae Fabricius, 1775. Sri Lanka; India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Asota clara Butler, 1875. Myanmar.
Asota contorta (Aurivillius, 1894): India: West Bengal.
Asota egens (Walker, 1854). Nepal; Myanmar; India: Andaman & Nicobar Is., Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Tripura, West Bengal.
Asota ficus Fabricius, 1775. Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India: Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand.
Asota heliconia (Linnaeus, 1758). India: Andaman & Nicobar Is., Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu.
Asota paphos (Fabricius, 1787). India: NE Himalaya.
Asota paliura (Swinhoe, 1893). India: Kerala.
Asota plaginota Butler, 1875. Nepal; Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Asota plana (Walker, 1854). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Tripura; Bangladesh; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Asota producta (Butler, 1875). Sri Lanka; India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu.
Asota sericea Moore, 1878. India: Karnataka (TL: Canara), Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu.
Asota tortuosa Moore, 1872. Nepal; Myanmar; India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 3 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Asota ficus (Fabricius, 1775): Ficus carica, Ficus hispida, Ficus pumila, Ficus racemosa, Ficus religiosa (Moraceae), Mitragyna diversifolia (Rubiaceae), Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Asota ficus Fabricius, 1775 In lepidoptera.pro Accessed 23 August 2015. http://lepidoptera.pro/taxonomy/72339
- Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Plate 34. fg. 7-8
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Asota ficus (Fabricius, 1775) – . 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/asota-ficus, accessed 2025/08/23.