Taxonomic Information
Erygia Guenée, 1852 species known from India
Erygia apicalis Guenée, 1852. Indo-Australian tropics.
Erygia precedens (Walker, 1858). Indo-Australian tropics.
Erygia reflectifascia Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris.
Erygia sigillata Butler, 1889. India: Himachal Pradesh (Dharmsala).
Erygia spissa (Guenée, 1852). Indian subcontinent.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Erygia spissa -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Felinia spissa Guenée, 1852. Hist. nat. Insectes, Spec. gén. Lépid. 7: 322.
- Felinia spissata Guenée, 1852. Hist. nat. Insectes, Spec. gén. Lépid. 7: 400.
- Briarda decens Walker, [1858] 1857. List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 13: 1098.
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. pg 469 #2425 as Polydesma spissa.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 261 pp. + 45 pls. pl. 22/23-24 as Felinia spissa.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/miscellaneous_i/gallery.php for apicalis, spissa and precedens.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=224760
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Erygia spissa (Guenée, 1852) – . 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/erygia-spissa, accessed 2025/10/24.