Taxonomic Information
Dysodia Clemens, 1860 species known from Indian subcontinent:
Dysodia ignita (Walker, [1866]). India: Assam, Sikkim; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh; Myanmar.
Dysodia fenestrata Moore, 1881. India: Sikkim, Assam; Sri Lanka.
Dysodia laevis Warren, 1900. India: Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya; Sri Lanka; Laos; Myanmar.
Dysodia miniata Walker, 1863. India: S. India, Sikkim.
Dysodia rajah rajah (Boisduval, 1874). India: Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya; Nepal; Bangladesh.
Dysodia siccifolia Moore, 1881. India: West Bengal, Assam, Sikkim.
Dysodia taprobana Moore, 1884. India: ‘Hindustan’, Tamil Nadu, Assam; Bangladesh; Sri Lanka.
Dysodia viridatrix Walker, [1858]. Sri Lanka; India: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Assam.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Rajah rajah rajah -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 |
- OD: Pachythyris rajah Boisduval, [1875], in Boisduval & Guenee, Hist. nat. lnsectes (Lepid.) 1: 492 [TL:Silhet, Bangladesh]. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37726#page/506/mode/1up
- Dysodia rajah Li, 1996: 133, figs 28, 32, 39.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 138/35.
- http://www.pyralidsofborneo.org/index.php?dysodia-raja-boisduval-1874plate-91 [accessed 11 August 2021] as Dysodia raja.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1020066-Dysodia-raja
Misspelt as Dysodia raja instead of Dysodia rajah by numerous authors (refer OD for correct spelling).
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Dysodia rajah (Boisduval, [1875] – . 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/dysodia-rajah, accessed 2025/10/31.