Taxonomic Information
Elophila Hübner, 1822 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Elophila difflualis (Snellen, [1880]). India: Uttarakhand, West Bengal (Kolkata), Maharashtra (Mumbai).
Elophila melagynalis (Agassiz, 1978). Sri Lanka.
Elophila palliolatalis (Swinhoe, 1890). Myanmar.
Elophila scitalis (Swinhoe, 1885). India: Maharashtra (Mumbai).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Elophila difflualis -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
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| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 |
- Hydrocampa difflualis Snellen, [1880]. Midden-Sumatra, 4 (8): 75; TL: Makassar; Fort de Kock; Boea; Java. Text at https://archive.org/details/lepidoptera00snel/page/75/mode/1up?view=theater
- Isopteryx enixalis Swinhoe, 1885; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885: 869; TL: Bombay. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen85zool/page/869/mode/1up?view=theater
- Cymoriza linealis Moore, 1888; Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (3): 210; TL: Calcutta. Text at https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/210/mode/1up?view=theater
- Nymphula osculatrix Meyrick, 1933; Exotic Microlep. 4 (13-14): 394; TL: Siam. Text at https://archive.org/details/exoticmicrolepid4193meyr/page/394/mode/1up?view=theater
- MON Part 5. Pg. 100, Pl. 141/16.
- http://pyralidsofborneo.org/index.php?difflualis
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/acen/difflualis.html
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/416517-Elophila-difflualis
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Elophila difflualis (Snellen, [1880]) – . 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/elophila-difflualis, accessed 2025/11/07.