Taxonomic Information
Autoba Walker, [1863] species known from India.
Autoba griseicosta Warren, 1913. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Autoba obscura (Moore, 1882). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Autoba olivacea (Walker, [1858]). India: Punjab (TL), South India (Nilgiris), Tamil Nadu (Coimbatore); Sri Lanka.
Autoba rubra (Hampson, 1902). India: Sikkim (TL).
Autoba silicula (Swinhoe, 1897). India: Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Gujarat, Delhi; Pakistan (TL: Karachi).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Autoba silicula -
,
,
,
,
,
Similar species is Eublemma gayneri (Rothschild, 1901)
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/665099-Eublemma-gayneri
http://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Eublemma_Gayneri [accessed 24 July 2021]
https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/EREBIDAE/BOLETOBIINAE/eublemma%20gayneri.htm.
All the markings on the African site, seem to show that the postmedial line in E. gayneri is oblique and straight from dorsum, then angled acutely to costa.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
- Eublemma silicula Swinhoe, 1897. Pg. 167; TL: [Pakistan] Karachi; [India] Hyderabad, Sind; Koni
- Autoba silicula saturata Warren, 1913. Gross-Schmett. Erde 11: 225; TL: Queensland.
- Joshi, R., Zahiri, R., Banerjee, D. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5635(1), pp.1-247.
- http://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Autoba_Silicula_En [accessed 24 July 2021]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/780663-Eublemma-silicula
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/acon/silicula.html [accessed 24 July 2021]
- https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=50464
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Autoba silicula (Swinhoe, 1897) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/autoba-silicula, accessed 2025/10/31.