Taxonomic Information
Autocharis Swinhoe, 1894 species known from India.
Autocharis fessalis (Swinhoe, 1886)
Autocharis amethystina Swinhoe, [1894]
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 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
Autocharis fessalis (Swinhoe, 1886) - Anogeissus latifolia (Combretaceae), Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010)
- OD: Glyphodes fessalis Swinhoe, 1886. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 459, pl. 41/13. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96836#page/567/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. 415, # 5184 as Noorda fessalis.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 141/21.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/541950-Autocharis-fessalis
- https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/CRAMBIDAE/ODONTIINAE/autocharis%20fessalis.htm
Note: All the individuals on this page were incorrectly identified as Pseudonoorda rubricostalis (Hampson, 1910), which is an African species. Corrected on 21 Jan 2022 by SS, based on inputs from Jahir Rayhan.
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Autocharis fessalis (Swinhoe, 1886) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.42. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/autocharis-fessalis, accessed 2023/03/23.