Subspecies in India
Taxonomic Information
Similiar species:
Comostola turgescens at http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_48_10.php
Both C. turgescens and C. pyrrhogona have pale blue-green wings with marginal red beading. At the forewing tornus this is narrow with a slight cornute extension in Bornean pyrrhogona but conspicuously broadened in C. turgescens Prout. (Vide Moths of Borneo). These species are best separated by examining male genitalia.
Comostola Meyrick, 1888 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Comostola caerulea Warren, 1893. Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola cedilla Prout, 1917. Andaman Is.
Comostola chlorargyra (Walker, 1861). India sub-region.
Comostola dispansa (Walker, 1861). Sri Lanka.
Comostola dyakaria (Walker, 1861). Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004. Uttarakhand (TL: Bhimtal), Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Comostola hypotyphla Prout, 1917. Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh.
Comostola inops Prout, 1912. Kashmir: Lidda Valley, Lidderwat, 6700ft, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola laesaria (Walker, 1861). India; Sri Lanka (TL).
Comostola leucosticta Yazaki, 1993. India: Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal (TL).
Comostola leucosticta Yazaki, 1993. India: Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal (TL).
Comostola maculata (Moore, 1868). West Bengal.
Comostola meritaria (Walker, 1861). India; Sri Lanka (TL).
Comostola multimaculata (Pajni & Walia, 1984). Himachal Pradesh, Nauni.
Comostola mundata Warren, 1896. Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Comostola ovifera (Warren, 1893). India: Sikkim; Tibet.
Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866). South India.
Comostola quantula (Swinhoe, 1886), Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Comostola subtiliaria (Bremer, 1864). Himalayas.
Comostola subtiliaria demeritaria Prout, 1917. Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Comostola turgescens (Prout, 1917). Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola virago Prout, 1926. Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Conservation and Special status
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
- OD: Eucrostis pyrrhogona Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 35:1610.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=123824 [accessed 21 February 2018]
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/geom/pyrrhogona.html
- http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1087158
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_48_10.php [accessed 21 February 2018]
Other Notes
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.83. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/comostola-pyrrhogona, accessed 2025/03/22.