Taxonomic Information
Disepholcia Prout, 1924 species known from India.
Disepholcia caerulea Butler, 1889. India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Dharmsala), Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, "N. India"; Nepal, Myanmar.
Note: This species is listed in the genus Trisuloides Butler, 1881 by some authors (Joshi et al, 2025), but Behounek et al (2011) placed this in Disepholcia Prout, 1924 and we follow the same treatment, pending further investigation.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- OD: Trisuloides caerulea Butler, 1889. Ill. Het. B. M. 7:35. Pl. 128. f.3.
- Anonymous. Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species. Website accessed June 2015.
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. Moths 2. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg 437, # 2355.
- Behounek, G., Han, H.L. and Kononenko, V., 2011. A revision of the genus Trisuloides Butler, 1881 with descriptions of three new species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Revision of Pantheinae, contribution I. Zootaxa, 3069 (1), pp.1-25. Fig. 39.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl 13/14.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Disepholcia caerulea (Butler, 1889) – . 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/disepholcia-caerulea, accessed 2025/11/07.