
Taxonomic Information
Chabula Moore, [1886] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Chabula acamasalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; Myanmar; (Hindustan) India.
Chabula telphusalis (Walker, 1859). India: Sikkim, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Nicobar Island, Assam, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh.
Chabula trivitralis (Swinhoe, 1895). Indian: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills, Shillong).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similar species: Chabula telphusalis Walker, [1859]
Chabula telphusalis is separated from Chabula acamasalis as the patch before the post-medial line on FW is more reniform and does not touch costa, pale patches beyond postmedial on FW & HW, near the tornus, are obsolete.
State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
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Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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Delhi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | |||||||||||||
Kerala | |||||||||||||
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Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | |||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Paschimbanga | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
Total | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
- OD: Chabula Moore, [1886]. Lepid. Ceylon 3 (3): 317; TS: Zebronia acamasalis Walker.
- 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. 284, # 4835 as Bocchoris acamasalis.
- Sondhi, Y. & S. Sondhi. 2016. A partial checklist of moths (Lepidoptera) of Dehradun, Mussoorie and Devalsari in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(5): 8756–8776; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2814.8.5.8756-8776. Image 211.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=329128. [accessed 15 November 2017]
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/acamasalis.html. [accessed 15 November 2017]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Chabula acamasalis (Walker, 1859) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.82. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/chabula-acamasalis, accessed 2025/02/14.