Taxonomic Information
Numerous species of Endotricha Zeller, 1847 are known from India and are doubtfully identified with certainty from images. Hence, this species is provisionally identified.
Endotricha Zeller, 1847 species known from India.
Endotricha albicilia Hampson, 1891. Sri Lanka; India: W. Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu, Andamans, India.
Endotricha ardentalis Hampson, 1896. Bhutan; India: North India.
Endotricha costaemaculalis fuscifusalis Hampson, 1896. Pakistan; India: Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh.
Endotricha decessalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India: Andamans Is.
Endotricha eximia Whalley, 1963. India: Khasis Hills, Meghalaya, Sikkim, North India.
Endotricha fuscobasalis Ragonot, 1891. Pakistan; India: North India.
Endotricha loricata Moore, 1888. Sri Lanka; Pakistan; India: Kolkata, West Bengal.
Endotricha luteogrisalis Hampson, 1896. Bhutan; India: North India.
Endotricha mediolineata Hampson, 1906. India: Sikkim.
Endotricha melanobasis Hampson, 1916. India: Assam, Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, North India.
Endotricha mesenterialis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India.
Endotricha nicobaralis Hampson, 1906. Myanmar; India: Nicobar Islands.
Endotricha nigromaculata Whalley, 1963. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India.
Endotricha olivacealis (Bremer, 1864). Myanmar; India: Mumbai, Maharashtra, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh.
Endotricha rufofimbrialis Warren, 1891. India: Northern India.
Endotricha ragonoti Christoph, 1893. India: Dras, Kashmir, North India.
Endotricha ruminalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India: "North Hindustan".
Endotricha serratalis Snellen, 1890. India: Sikkim.
Endotricha similata (Moore, 1888). Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India: Darjeeling, West Bengal, North India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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As per Whalley (1963), this species is part of Endotricha luteogrisalis species-group from India.
Similar species from the Endotricha luteogrisalis species-group are:
Endotricha luteogrisalis Hampson, 1896
Endotricha loricata (Moore, 1888)
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
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| Bihar | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
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| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
- OD: Agroptera ruminalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 17: 387; TL: N.Hindustan. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1618brit/page/387/mode/1up?view=theater
- Pyralis ibycusalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 19: 899; TL: N.India. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1921brit/page/899/mode/1up?view=theater
- Endotricha symphonialis Hampson, 1893. Ill. typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln Br. Mus. 9: 161, Pl. 171/17. TL: Ceylon. Text at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft09brituoft/page/161/mode/1up?view=theater.Plate at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft09brituoft/page/n222/mode/1up?view=theater
- Endotricha ruminalis; Hampson, 1896. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (4): 484. Text at https://archive.org/details/transactionsofen1896roya/page/484/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs.pg. 135, # 4492.
- Whalley, P. E. S. 1963.A revision of the World species of the genus Endroticha Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 13 (11): 415, pl. 2, f. 27. Text at https://archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis13entoond/page/415/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis13entoond/page/n602/mode/1up?view=theater
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/626761-Endotricha-ruminalis
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Endotricha ruminalis (Walker, 1859) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/endotricha-ruminalis, accessed 2024/04/30.