Taxonomic Information
Glyphodes Guenée, 1854 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
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 cupripennalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes dysallactalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes ernalis Swinhoe, 1894. India.
Glyphodes lacustralis Moore, 1867. India. (Verification needed)
Glyphodes microta Meyrick, 1890. Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes minimalis Hampson, 1896. Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes negatalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India.
Glyphodes naralis Felder, Felder & Rogenhofer, [1875]. India: Sikkim.
Glyphodes nilgirica Hampson, 1896. India: Nilgiris.
Glyphodes onychinalis (Guenée, 1854). Sri Lanka; India.
Glyphodes orbiferalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes prothymalis Swinhoe, 1892. India: Meghalaya.
Glyphodes pulverulentalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar; India: Assam.
Glyphodes proximalis Snellen, 1899. India.
Glyphodes pyloalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India.
Glyphodes vertumnalis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Glyphodes westermani Snellen, 1877. Bhutan.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Glyphodes orbiferalis -
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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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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 1 |
- Glyphodes orbiferalis Hampson, 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs. Pg 360, # 5052.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 142/17.
Other Notes
Similar species: Glyphodes prothymalis Swinhoe, 1892
Glyphodes orbiferalis differs from G. prothymalis as below
FW being shorter and broader and less produced at apex in prothymalis, more apex more produced in orbiferalis; white hyaline post-medial patch is triangular in prothymalis and outwardly rounded and quadrate in orbiferalis; HW with white marginal band and cilia in prothymalis, HW with black marginal line and white cilia in orbiferalis.
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Glyphodes orbiferalis Hampson, 1896 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.62. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/glyphodes-orbiferalis, accessed 2023/12/08.