Taxonomic Information
Agrotera Schrank, 1802 species known from India.
Agrotera basinotata Hampson, 1891. Indian subcontinent. TL: Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.
Agrotera barcealis (Walker, [1859]). India: Sri Lanka
Agrotera discinotata Swinhoe, 1894. India: Meghalaya (Cherrapunji: TL).
Agrotera effertalis (Walker, [1859]). Sri Lanka (TL).
Agrotera scissalis (Walker, [1866]). TL: Java, Indonesia. India: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Agrotera nemoralis (Scopoli, 1763). Andaman Is.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Agrotera scissalis -
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Similar species: Sagariphora magnificalis Hampson, [1893]
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Goa | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
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| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Agrotera scissalis (Walker, [1866]): Syzygium cumini, Eugenia myrobalana (Myrtaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Aediodes scissalis Walker, [1866]. List. Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. 34, (Suppl. 4): 1121-1533. pg. 1526. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120100#page/832/mode/1up
- 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 266, # 4796.
- Robinson, G.S., K.R.Tuck, M. Shaffer & K. Cook. 1994. The Smaller Moths of South-East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 308 pp., 51 figs., 32 pls. Pl. 30/18.
- Chen, K., M. Horak, X. Du & D. Zhang 2017. Revision of the Australian species of Agrotera Schrank (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Spilomelinae). Zootaxa 4362 (2): 213–224.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=273064
- http://www.pyralidsofborneo.org/index.php?scissalis
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/424545-Agrotera-scissalis
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Agrotera scissalis (Walker, [1866]) – . 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/agrotera-scissalis, accessed 2025/10/28.