Taxonomic Information
Dysphania Hübner, [1819] species known from the Indian subcontinent (Kirti et al. 2019 and Lepindex).
Dysphania andamana (Moore, 1877). India: Andaman Is.
Dysphania alloides Prout, 1916. India: Andaman 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). N. India. Uttarakhand east to NE. India.
Dysphania nelera (Swinhoe, 1891). 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.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Separating Dysphania militaris (Linnaeus, 1758) and Dysphania subrepleta excubitor (Moore, 1879) based on Han & Xue, 2011, Fauna Sinica.
D. subrepleta: antemedial line of forewing complete except the interruption between CuA and anal fold: hind wing with discal spot connected with the patch below, or the latter obsolete or absent.
D. militaris: antemedial line of forewing composed of discontinuous patches: hind wing with discal spot not connected with the patch below, the latter not obsolete.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
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| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
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| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
- OD: Euschema excubitor Moore, 1878. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878: 846. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28519527#page/462/mode/1up
- Seitz, A. (Ed.). Macro. Lep. World. Vol. 12, pg. 64, pl. 6e for excubitor.
- Han, H., Xue, D. 2011. Fauna Sinica (Insecta Vol. 54. Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Geometrinae). Beijing, Science Press. 1-787 pp.Pl. 1/3. For Dysphania subrepleta excubitor.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/dysphaniini/dysphaniini_1_4.php
Note: Many of these individuals were incorrectly identified as Dysphania militaris (Linnaeus, 1758) on the Moths of India website. These errors were identified and corrected on 22 Jan 2022.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Dysphania subrepleta (Walker, 1854) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/dysphania-subrepleta, accessed 2025/04/22.