Taxonomic Information
Dysphania Hübner, [1819] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Dysphania andamana (Moore, 1877). India: Andamans Is.
Dysphania alloides Prout, 1916. India: Andamans Is. (Port Blair).
Dysphania glaucescens glaucescens (Walker, 1862). Indian Himalayas.
Dysphania flavidiscalis Warren, 1895. Myanmar.
Dysphania jessica (Swinhoe, 1908). India: Nicobar Is (Nancoury), Andaman Is (Port Blair).
Dysphania malayanus recessa (Walker, 1862). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Dysphania militaris (Linnaeus, 1758). India: Uttarakhand east to NE. India.
Dysphania nelera (Swinhoe, 1891).India: Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala.
Dysphania palmyra (Stoll, [1790]). India: Maharashtra, Karnataka; Sri Lanka.
Dysphania percota (Swinhoe, 1891). India: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala.
Dysphania porphyroides Prout, 1917. India: Andaman Islands.
Dysphania prunicolor (Moore, 1879). Sri Lanka.
Dysphania subrepleta excubitor (Moore, 1879). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
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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 | |||||||||||||
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| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
Dysphania percota (Swinhoe, 1891): Carallia brachiata (Rhizophoraceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Euschema percota Swinhoe, 1891. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 24:142.
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig. pg 471, # 3997.
- Seitz, A. (Ed.) 1932. Macro. Lep. Vol. 12, pg. 65, pl. 7b.
- 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. 5:75.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphania_percota
- http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/319698-Dysphania-percota
- http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Dysphania-percota.php
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Dysphania percota (Swinhoe, 1891) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.91. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/dysphania-percota, accessed 2025/07/04.