Taxonomic Information
Herpetogramma Lederer, 1863 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Herpetogramma basalis (Walker, [1866]). Sri Lanka; India.
Herpetogramma bipunctalis (Fabricius, 1794). India: Himalayas, NE India, peninsular India, Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Herpetogramma coptobasalis (Hampson, 1899). Bhutan.
Herpetogramma cynaralis (Walker, 1859). India; Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma dilatatipes (Walker, 1866). India: Meghalaya, Karnataka.
Herpetogramma latifuscalis (Hampson, 1899). Bhutan.
Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859). India.
Herpetogramma luctuosalis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Herpetogramma magna Butler, 1879. India: Kerala.
Herpetogramma mellealis (Swinhoe, 1890). Myanmar.
Herpetogramma mutualis (Zeller, 1852). India: Andaman Is.
Herpetogramma nigricornalis (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Assam, Meghalaya.
Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Herpetogramma platycapna (Meyrick, 1897). India: Andaman Is.
Herpetogramma rudis (Warren, 1892). India.
Herpetogramma subalbescens (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Meghalaya.
Herpetogramma stultalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma viraktamathi Shankaramurthy & Nagaraj, 2025. India: Karnataka (TL: Kolar, Rajakallahalli).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Kerala | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 9 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 22 | 10 | 7 |
Larval Host Plant for cq642: Achyranthes aspera (Amaranthaceae).
- Singh, N. , R.Ranjan, A. Talukdar, R. Joshi, J. S. Kirti, K. Chandra & R. Mally. 2022. A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 5197 (1): 001–423. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Herpetogramma spp. Lederer, 1863 – . 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/herpetogramma-spp, accessed 2025/10/25.