
Taxonomic Information
List of Pachyodes known from India based on Kirti et al. (2019):
Pachyodes apicalis apicalis (Moore, 1888). India: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Pachyodes costistrigaria (Moore, 1868). India: Bengal.
Pachyodes haemataria (Herrich-Schäffer, [1854]). India: Central India.
Pachyodes leopardinata (Moore, 1868). India: Bengal.
Pachyodes molleri (Warren 1893). India: Sikkim.
Pachyodes ornataria Moore, 1888. India: Darjeeling, West Bengal, Cherrapunji, Meghalaya.
Pachyodes pictaria Moore, 1888. India: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Pachyodes pratti (Prout, 1927). India: Tinsukhia, Assam.
Pachyodes varicoloraria (Moore, 1868). India: Bengal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Separating Pachyodes haemataria and Pachyodes ornataria:
Forewing upperside: basal lines are closer together in ornataria, resulting in a narrower olive band compared to haemataria. Hindwing upperside: cell streak smaller in ornataria, sometimes red to reddish-black. In haemataria, the long cell streak is prominent, black and straight. Underside: Pachyodes ornataria has diffused blackish-brown markings near the base of both wings, which haemataria lacks. On the forewing underside, ornataria lacks the prominent black mid-cell and postdiscal spots present in haemataria. On the hindwing underside, ornataria has a black discal spot (somewhat diffused), which haemataria lacks.
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Sikkim | |||||||||||||
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Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
West Bengal | |||||||||||||
Total | 3 | 2 |
- OD: Pachyodes ornataria Moore, 1888. Descriptions of new Indian lepidopterous insects from the collection of the late Mr. W.S. Atkinson (3): 249. Darjeeling, West Bengal and Cherrapunji, Meghalaya. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26805#page/267/mode/1up
- 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. 476, #4014 as Pseudoterpna ornataria.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Plate 2/15.
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572.Image 392.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=466281
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Pachyodes ornataria Moore, 1888 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.83. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/pachyodes-ornataria, accessed 2025/03/28.