Pingasa rufofasciata Moore, 1888 -

Taxonomic Information

Pingasa Moore, [1887] species known from India. 
Pingasa alba Swinhoe, 1891. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Pingasa chlora chlora (Stoll, 1782). India: Indian Himalaya.
Pingasa crenaria (Guenée, 1858). India: Central India.
Pingasa dispensata (Walker, 1860). India: North India, Tamil Nadu.
Pingasa elutriata Prout, 1916. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling). 
Pingasa lariaria (Walker, 1860). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Tripura, Karnataka (?).
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria gracilis Prout, 1916. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria tephrosiaria Guenée, 1858. India: NW Himalaya. 
Pingasa rubicunda Warren, 1894. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Pingasa rufofasciata Moore, 1888. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Pingasa ruginaria ruginaria (Guenée, [1858]). India: North India, S. & W. India.
Pingasa ruginaria andamanica Prout, 1916. India: South Andaman, Port Blair.
Pingasa subviridis Warren, 1896. India: Meghalaya (Cherrapunji), West Bengal.
Pingasa venusta Warren, 1894. India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.

Unconfirmed records
Pingasa multispurcata Prout, 1913. An African species.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Notes: From key in Han & Xue (20011; Seitz Vol. 12). Postmedial line not arched,serrate, slightly to strongly. Outer postmedial line diffused with distinct pink-brown, red-brown or yellow-brown scales. Lacks yellow below. Below, the marginal border is largely obsolete, and grey, rather than black, and present near the apex. Wing has underside white, occasionally diffused with little grey or black-brown.

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh11
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total11
  1. OD: Pingasa rufofasciata Moore, 1888. Descr. New. Indian Lepid insects Colln Atkn. 3:247 (TL: Darjeeling). 
  2. Pingasa rufofasciata, Moore, In: Cotes & Swinhoe ,1888. Cat. Moths Ind. (4), p. 507. 
  3. Seitz, A. (Ed.). Macro. Lep. World. Vol. 12, pg. 48, Pl. 5e. 
  4. Han, H. & Xue, D. 2011. Fauna Sinica (Insecta Vol. 54, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Geometrinae). Science Press, Beijing. 787 pp. Pl. 10/16. 
  5. 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. Pl. 16/415.
  6. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=323634 

 

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Pingasa rufofasciata Moore, 1888 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/pingasa-rufofasciata, accessed 2024/04/25.