Taxonomic Information
Discothyris Warren, 1895 species known from India.
Discothyris ferruginata (Moore, 1888) (Agrotera). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjiling), Assam, Sikkim.
Discothyris megalophalis Hampson, 1899. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills), Sikkim.
Discothyris vestigialis (Snellen, 1890) (Gonocausta). India: Sikkim (TL), Arunachal Pradesh..
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similar species: Discothyris ferruginata (Moore, 1888)
Agrotera ferruginata Moore, 1888; Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (3): 209; TL: Sikkim. Text at https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/209/mode/1up
Hampson, FBI, Vol. 4, pg. 400, Fig. 216.
Based on Hampson, vestigialis differs from ferruginata in the patagia being white-tipped, forewing paler and semihyaline, antemedial obliquely curved, post-medial line oblique and strongly marked from costa to v.6, where it is angled, then waved, reduced to specks on the veins and inwardly oblique to inner margin, just beyond the middle.
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- Gonocausta vestigialis Snellen, 1890; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1890 (4): 628; TL: Sikkim. Text at https://archive.org/details/transactionsofen1890roya/page/628/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. 400.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1533573-Discothyris-vestigialis
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/angiud/54787912878/
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Discothyris vestigialis (Snellen, 1890) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/discothyris-vestigialis, accessed 2026/04/07.