Taxonomic Information
Marasmia Lederer, 1863 species known from India.
Marasmia exigua (Butler, 1879). India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu.
Marasmia poeyalis (Boisduval, 1833). Throughout India.
Marasmia trapezalis (Guenée, 1854). India: "N. India", "S. India", Sikkim, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Uttara Pradesh.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Total | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 5 |
- OD: Botys poeyalis Boisduval, 1833. Faune entomologique de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice : lépidoptères pg. 118. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46062#page/128/mode/1up (in French)
- Botys marisalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 18: 717. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1618brit/page/717/mode/1up?view=theater
- Marasmia cicatricosa Lederer, 1863. Wien. ent. Monats. 7 (11): 386. Text at https://archive.org/details/wienerentomologi07wien?view=theater#page/386/mode/1up (in German).
- https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/CRAMBIDAE/SPILOMELINAE/Cnaphalocrocis%20poeyalis.html
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1273862-Marasmia-poeyalis
- https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Cnaphalocrocis_poeyalis_En
- https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=64621
Note: Generic placement in Marasmia Lederer, 1863 rather than Cnaphalocrocis Lederer, 1863 based on Nuss et al (2022) at http://www.pyraloidea.org.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Marasmia poeyalis (Boisduval, 1833) – . 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/marasmia-poeyalis, accessed 2025/11/03.