Calesia stillifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 -

Taxonomic Information

Calesia Guenée, 1852 species known from India. 
Calesia dasypterus Kollar, 1844. Himalaya. 
Calesia fuscicorpus Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris.
Calesia haemorrhoa Guenée, 1852. N. &. C. India; Nepal. 
Calesia flabellifera Moore, 1878. Myanmar.
Calesia phaiosoma (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris. 
Calesia proxantha Hampson, 1895. Myanmar.
Calesia rhodotela Hampson, 1926. Maharashtra; Myanmar.
Calesia roseiceps Hampson, 1894. India: Sikkim.
Calesia rufipalpis (Walker, 1858). India: Karnataka; Sri Lanka.
Calesia stillifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874. S. &. W. India; Sri Lanka. 
Calesia thermantis Hampson, 1926. Sri Lanka.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Calesia stillifera -

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa1
Gujarat21
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra173
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
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Calesia stillifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874: Thunbergia alata, Lepidagathis incurva (Acanthaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
  1. Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae, pg 580, # 2697 as Calesia satellitia.
  2. Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. 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 8 fig-13

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Calesia stillifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 – . 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/calesia-stillifera, accessed 2024/10/13.