Taxonomic Information
Glyphodes Guenée, 1854 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Glyphodes actorionalis Walker, 1859. India.
Glyphodes badialis (Walker, 1859). India: Arunachal Pradesh. Provisionally identified.
Glyphodes bicolor (Swainson, 1821). India.
Glyphodes bivitralis Guenée, 1854. India.
Glyphodes caesalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India: Mainland India, Andamans.
Glyphodes callizona (Meyrick, 1894). Myanmar.
Glyphodes canthusalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; India: Mainland India, Andaman Islands.
Glyphodes chilka Moore, 1888. India: Bengal.
Glyphodes crithealis (Walker, 1859). India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal.
Glyphodes cupripennalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes dysallactalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes ernalis Swinhoe, 1894. India.
Glyphodes lacustralis Moore, 1867. India: West Bengal, Meghalaya.
Glyphodes microta Meyrick, 1890. Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes minimalis Hampson, 1896. S. India; Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes negatalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India.
Glyphodes naralis Felder, Felder & Rogenhofer, [1875]. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal.
Glyphodes nilgirica Hampson, 1896. India: Nilgiris.
Glyphodes orbiferalis Hampson, 1896. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Nagaland; Myanmar.
Glyphodes prothymalis Swinhoe, 1892. India: Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
Glyphodes pulverulentalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar; India: Assam.
Glyphodes proximalis Snellen, 1899. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Glyphodes pyloalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India.
Glyphodes stolalis Guenée, 1854. India.
Glyphodes vertumnalis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Glyphodes westermani Snellen, 1877. Bhutan.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
Glyphodes bicolor (Swainson, 1821): Alstonia scholaris, Carissa carandas (Apocynaceae), Artocarpus integer, Ficus benghalensis (Moraceae), Desmodium oojeinense (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Botis bicolor Swainson, 1821. Zool. Illustr. (1) 2: pl. 77, f. 2. Plate at https://archive.org/details/zoologicalillust02swai/page/n71/mode/1up?view=theater
- Glyphodes diurnalis Guenée, 1854. Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 8: 294.
- Glyphodes parvalis Walker, [1866]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 34: 1355. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/1355/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. 358, # 5046.
- Goff, R. African Moths. http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/CRAMBIDAE/SPILOMELINAE/glyphodes%20bicolor.html [accessed 25 November 2016]
- jpmoth.org. Digital Moths of Asia. http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/50_PYRALOIDEA/Crambidae/63.9_Pyraustinae/Glyphodes/Glyphodes%20bicolor/Glyphodes%20bicolor.htm [accessed 25 November 2016]
- Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P. D. N. 2007. BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (website). http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=273234 [accessed 25 November 2016]
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/bicolor.html
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Glyphodes bicolor (Swainson, 1821) – . 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/glyphodes-bicolor, accessed 2025/10/31.