Calesia stillifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 -

Taxonomic Information

Calesia Guenée, 1852 species known from India. 
Calesia dasypterus Kollar, 1844. Himalaya. 
Calesia fuscicorpus Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris.
Calesia haemorrhoa Guenée, 1852. N. &. C. India; Nepal. 
Calesia flabellifera Moore, 1878. Myanmar.
Calesia phaiosoma (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris. 
Calesia proxantha Hampson, 1895. Myanmar.
Calesia rhodotela Hampson, 1926. Maharashtra; Myanmar.
Calesia roseiceps Hampson, 1894. India: Sikkim.
Calesia rufipalpis (Walker, 1858). India: Karnataka; Sri Lanka.
Calesia stillifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874. S. &. W. India; Sri Lanka. 
Calesia thermantis Hampson, 1926. Sri Lanka.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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Andhra Pradesh
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Kerala
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Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra2173
Manipur
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Mizoram
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Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
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Calesia stillifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874: Thunbergia alata, Lepidagathis incurva (Acanthaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
  1. Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae, pg 580, # 2697 as Calesia satellitia.
  2. Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 261 pp. + 45 pls. Plate 8, fig 13. 

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Calesia stillifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.92. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/calesia-stillifera, accessed 2025/08/05.