Taxonomic Information
Pida Walker, 1865 species known from India.
Pida albostriata (Hampson, [1893]). India: Manipur, Nagaland.
Pida apicalis Walker, 1865. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Pida calligramma (Walker, 1865). Nepal; India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Pida patrana (Moore, 1859). Bhutan; India: West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
Transferred Ramadra calligramma (Walker, 1865) to Pida calligramma (Walker, 1865) based on Wang et a. (2015).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
- Mardara calligramma Walker, 1865. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 32: 402. TL: Darjeeling. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3132brit/page/402/mode/1up?view=theater
- pl.55:5
- Wang, H., Wahlberg, N., Holloway, J.D., Bergsten, J., Fan, X., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Wen, L., Wang, M. and Nylin, S., 2015. Molecular phylogeny of Lymantriinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Erebidae) inferred from eight gene regions. Cladistics, 31(6), pp.579-592. Transferred Ramadra calligramma (Walker, 1865) to Pida calligramma (Walker, 1865).
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Pida calligramma (Walker, 1865) – . 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/pida-calligramma, accessed 2025/10/31.