Taxonomic Information
Cretonia Walker, 1866 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Cretonia acuticosta Holloway, 2009. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Cretonia floccifera (Hampson, 1896). Bhutan.
Cretonia lanka (Holloway, 2009). Sri Lanka (TL).
Cretonia vegetus (Swinhoe, 1885) India: Maharashtra (TL: Bombay), West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh; Nepal; Sri Lanka; Myanmar.
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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| Assam | |||||||||||||
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| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
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| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Cretonia vegetus (Swinhoe, 1885): Ipomoea batatas (Convolvulaceae), Oryza sativa (Poaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Spadix vegetus Swinhoe, 1885. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885: 475, pl. 28, f. 14; TL: Bombay. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen85zool/page/475/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen85zool/page/n532/mode/1up?view=theater.
- Cretonia vegeta Swinhoe In: Hampson, G. F. 1910. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum, Vol. 10. pg. 388, fig. 123. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/61179#page/414/mode/1up. Describes vegetus in greater detail and a good match to the description.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 87/7 as Cretonia vegeta.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Cretonia vegetus (Swinhoe, 1885) – . 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/cretonia-vegetus, accessed 2025/10/24.