Taxonomic Information
Nagadeba Walker, [1866] species known from India.
Nagadeba cinerea Hampson, 1895. India: Sikkim, Nagaland, Andaman Is.
Nagadeba indecoralis Walker, [1866]. India; Nepal; Myanmar; Sri Lanka.
Nagadeba polia (Hampson, 1891). India: “Nilgiris”.
Nagadeba castanealis Hampson, 1895. India: Sikkim, Nagaland.
Provisionally identified as Nagadeba indecoralis Walker, [1866]. See notes in Identification section on separation from Nagadeba cinerea Hampson, 1895.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Nagadeba indecoralis -
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Nagadeba cinerea Hampson, 1895 is a very similar species with descriptions inadequate to separate from indecoralis reliably. Based on museum specimen images at https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/oum-catalogue-388743.
Based on these images, these individuals do not seem like N. cinerea, but N. indecoralis. All the images of N. cinerea are grey brown with no red-brown. Many of the cinerea images here have a pale medial band, that indecoralis lacks.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Goa | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 |
- Nagadeba indecoralis Walker, [1866]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 34: 1521; TL: Java. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/1521/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg. 52, # 2842.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 151, Pl. 90/25.
- https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/oum-catalogue-388743
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204878-Nagadeba-indecoralis
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Nagadeba indecoralis Walker, [1866] – . 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/Nagadeba-indecoralis, accessed 2025/10/25.