Taxonomic Information
List of Earias Hübner, [1825] 1816 species known from India:
Earias apicebrunnea Warren, 1916. India (Meghalaya).
Earias biplaga Walker, 1866. India; Nepal.
Earias cupreoviridis (Walker, 1862) (Xanthoptera). India (Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andamans, Nicobar Isl., Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura); Sri Lanka; Nepal.
Earias flavida Felder, 1861. India (Nilgiris, Kerala, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu); Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar.
Earias insulana (Boisduval, 1833) (Tortrix). India (Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan); Sri Lanka; Myanmar.
Earias luteolaria Hampson, 1891. India (Bihar, Nagaland, Nilgiris, Andamans, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu); Sri Lanka.
Earias pudicana Staudinger, 1887. India (Himachal Pradesh).
Earias roseifera Butler, 1881. India (Assam, Meghalaya).
Earias roseoviridis Sugi, 1982. India (Uttarakhand).
Earias venusta Warren, 1916. India (Himachal Pradesh).
Earias vittella (Fabricius, 1794) (Tinea). India (Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, West Bengal, Odisha, South India, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Island, Orissa, Kerala, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand); Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Nepal; Myanmar.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Earias vittella - Spotted Bollworm
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Paschimbanga | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
Earias vittella (Fabricius, 1794) – Spotted Bollworm - Abelmoschus crinitus, Abelmoschus esculentus, Abelmoschus moschatus, Alcea rosea, Gossypium sp., Hibiscus rosa-sinensis(Malvaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Earias-vittella.php
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/chlo/vittella.html [accessed 07 December 2018]
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Pg. 226, Pl. 31/4-5.
- OD: Tinea vittella Fabricius, 1794; Ent. Syst. 3 (2): 293
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-18/eariadinae/eariadinae_1_1.php [accessed 07 December 2018]
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Earias vittella (Fabricius, 1794) – Spotted Bollworm. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.81. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/earias-vittella, accessed 2024/12/08.