Comibaena cassidara (Guenée, [1858]) -

Taxonomic Information

Comibaena Hübner, [1823] species known from India.
Comibaena attenuata (Warren, 1896). Himalayas. 

Comibaena albimarginata (Warren, 1893). Sikkim

Comibaena apicipicta Prout, 1912. Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal; Tibet. 

Comibaena biplaga Walker, 1861. South India, NE Himalaya.

Comibaena cassidara (Guenée, 1858). India.

Comibaenini cenocraspis Prout, 1926. India; Myanmar. 

Comibaena chalybeata Moore, 1868. Darjeeling, West Bengal.

Comibaena delineata (Warren, 1893). Sikkim

Comibaena fuscidorsata Prout,1912. Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram.

Comibaena integranota Hampson, 1893. Khasis, Meghalaya; Sri Lanka (Kelani Valley).  

Comibaena nepalensis Yazaki, 2000. Sikkim, Dalapchand; Nepal (Godavari).

Comibaena pictipennis Bulter, 1880. Darjeeling, West Bengal.

Comibaena quadrinotata Butler, 1889. Kangra District, Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh.

Comibaena subhyalina (Warren, 1899). North India.
Comibaena striataria Leech, 1897. S. & W. India. Needs confirmation. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat11
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka1
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga1112
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan1
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu11
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh1
Uttarakhand131
West Bengal
Total1111213214

Comibaena cassidara (Guenée, [1858]) Anacardium occidentale (Anacardiaceae), Flemingia javanica (Fabaceae), Glycosmis pentaphylla (Rutaceae), Ixora sp. (Rubiaceae), Lagerstroemia indica (Lythraceae), Ziziphus jujuba (Rhamnaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).

  1. OD: Phodoresma [sic] cassidara Guenée, 1857; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 9: 370; TL: Central India. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37725#page/432/mode/1up.
  2. http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_26_3.php. [accessed 14 August 2019]
  3. http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=590513. [accessed 14 August 2019]
  4. Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg. 488, # 4052.
  5. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 129/5
  6. Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Pl.4:69

 

 

Page citation

Anonymous 2023. Comibaena cassidara (Guenée, [1858]) – . 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/comibaena-cassidara, accessed 2023/03/22.