Taxonomic Information
Pericyma Herrich-Schäffer, [1851] species from India. Most of the species display polymorphism.
Pericyma albidens (Walker, 1865) (Moepa). S. India.
Pericyma cruegeri (Butler, 1886) (Homoptera). India.
Pericyma detersa (Walker, 1865) (Homoptera). N India.
Pericyma glaucinans (Guenée, 1852) (Alamis). India, Bangladesh.
Pericyma umbrina (Guenée, 1852) (Alamis). India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Pericyma umbrina -
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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 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
Pericyma umbrina (Guenée, 1852): Acacia catechu, Acacia lenticularis, Acacia polyacantha (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010). Reared by Rachit Singh on Acacia catechu (Sondhi et al. 2020).
- OD: Alamis umbrina Guenée, 1852. Noct. 3:4.
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg. 474, # 2443 as Homoptera umbrina.
- Pericyma umbrina; Gardner, 1947. Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London. 98: 75. Larval description.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 46/22.
- http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/EREBIDAE/EREBINAE/pericyma%20umbrina.htm. [accessed 16 July 2019]
Other Notes
The forewing post-medial line in Pericyma glaucinans is incurved beyond cell, and then oblique to inner margin. In Pericyma umbrina, the forewing post-medial line is incurved beyond cell, and then sinuous to inner margin. In Pericyma glaucinans, the HW postmedial begins near apex and is straight and oblique towards inner margin (post-medial line is sinuous in umbrina). In Pericyma albidens, the postmedial line is more or less straight, with a small kink at v.4. In Pericyma albidens, the medial black line, curves in to costa, while in Pericyma glaucinans, it is largely parallel to the postmedial.
Page citation
Singh, R. 2024. Pericyma umbrina (Guenée, 1852) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/pericyma-umbrina, accessed 2024/10/08.