Taxonomic Information
Agrioglypta Meyrick, 1932 species known from India.
Agrioglypta eurytusalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India: Southern India (TL: Nilgiris), Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya; Sri Lanka; Myanmar;
Agrioglypta excelsalis (Walker, [1866]). Bhutan; India: Andaman & Nicobar Is.
Agrioglypta itysalis (Walker, 1859). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Andaman Is.
Agrioglypta samoana (Swinhoe, 1906). Bhutan.
Agrioglypta zelimalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India: Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttarakhand; Sri Lanka; Nepal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Agrioglypta zelimalis -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Kerala | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Glyphodes zelimalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 17: 502. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1618brit/page/502/mode/1up?view=theater
- Glyphodes nyctealis Snellen, [1880]. Midden-Sumatra, 4 (8): 68.
- Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs. Pg. 355, # 5036
- http://www.pyralidsofborneo.org/index.php?zelimalis [accessed 09 March 2021]
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/zelimal.html [accessed 09 March 2021]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/457530
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Agrioglypta zelimalis Walker, 1859 – . 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/agrioglypta-zelimalis, accessed 2025/11/02.