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
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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| 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 2025. Glyphodes orbiferalis Hampson, 1896 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.82. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/glyphodes-orbiferalis, accessed 2025/01/26.