Taxonomic Information
List of Numenes Walker, 1855 species known from India.
Numenes flagrans Tams, 1928. India: Assam, Nagaland.
Numenes siletti Walker, 1855. Nepal; India: NE India.
Numenes grisa Chao, 1983. India: Mizoram.
Numenes patrana Moore, 1859 is transferred to Pida patrana (Moore, 1859) based on Wang et al (2015).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Numenes flagrans -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 |
- Numenes flagrans Tams, 1928. New species of lepidoptera heterocera in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 1 (5) : 624-633. TL: Assam.
- Kishida, Y. (Ed.). 2020. Moths of Laos, Part 1, TINEA Vol. 25, (Supplement 2), pp. 1-224, 94 pls. Pg. 118, Pl. 54, Fig. 5.
- Sankararaman, H. & A. Vaidya. 2023. Notes on genus Numenes Walker (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) with new country record for N. grisa Chao and rediscovery of N. flagrans Tams from India. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-023-01098-0
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Numenes flagrans Tams, 1928 – . 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/Numenes-flagrans, accessed 2025/11/02.