Taxonomic Information
Similar species:
Erebus Latreille, 1810 species known from India
Erebus acuta (Fawcett, 1917)
Erebus albicincta Kollar, [1844]
Erebus caprimulgus (Fabricus, 1775 )
Erebus ephesperis (Hübner, [1823])
Erebus gemmans (Guenée, 1852)
Erebus glaucopis (Walker, 1858)
Erebus hieroglyphica (Drury, 1773)
Erebus jaintiana (Swinhoe, 1896)
Erebus macrops (Linnaeus, 1768)
Erebus strigipennis (Moore, 1883)
Erebus superba (Swinhoe, 1908)
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Delhi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
Erebus macrops (Linnaeus, 1768) – Common Owl Moth: Acacia pennata, Entada sp. (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
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Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Erebus macrops (Linnaeus, 1768) – Common Owl Moth. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/erebus-macrops, accessed 2025/04/30.