Taxonomic Information
Herpetogramma Lederer, 1863 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Herpetogramma basalis (Walker, [1866]). Sri Lanka; India.
Herpetogramma bipunctalis (Fabricius, 1794). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills: TL); Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma coptobasalis (Hampson, 1899). Bhutan.
Herpetogramma cynaralis (Walker, 1859). India; Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma latifuscalis (Hampson, 1899). Bhutan.
Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859). India.
Herpetogramma mellealis (Swinhoe, 1890). Myanmar.
Herpetogramma nigricornalis (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Assam, Meghalaya.
Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Herpetogramma rudis (Warren, 1892). India.
Herpetogramma subalbescens (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Meghalaya.
Herpetogramma stultalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Herpetogramma phaeopteralis and Herpetogramma licarsisalis are best separated using external morphology, genitalia and molecular data.
| 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 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859): Acanthus ebracteatus (Acanthaceae), Alternanthera ficoidea, Gomphrena globosa (Amaranthaceae), Cynodon spp., Echinochloa oryzoides, Ischaemum spp., Oryza sativa, Panicum, Paspalum, Cenchrus, Sorghum spp., Zea mays (Poaceae), Senna siamea (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Botys licarsisalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 18: 686. TL: Borneo. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso1618brit#page/686/mode/1up
- 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. 402. As Pachyzancla licarsisalis.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 127/1.
- Park, B.S., Qi, M.J., Na, S.M., Lee, D.J., Kim, J.W. and Bae, Y.S., 2016. Two newly recorded species of the genus Herpetogramma (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae) in Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 9(2), pp.230-233. Fig. 1.
- http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Herpetogramma_Licarsisalis [accessed 08 September 2020]
- https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/CRAMBIDAE/SPILOMELINAE/herpetogramma%20licarsisalis.html
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/licarsisalis.html
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/243911-Herpetogramma-licarsisalis
Note: Media code bn942, br882, bv558 and bw854 are probably Herpetogramma rudis species-group and need to be re-assigned (Jahir Rayhan).
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.80. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/herpetogramma-licarsisalis, accessed 2024/10/13.