Taxonomic Information
List of Fossia Volynkin, Ivanova & Huang, 2019 known from India.
Fossia punicea punicea (Moore, 1878). India: West Bengal, Assam, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram.
Fossia punicea rothschildi (Draudt, 1914). India: Meghalaya.
Fossia melanandra (Černý, 2009). India: Bihar (Ahmad et al. 2023).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
- OD: Barsine punicea Moore, 1878. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878: 29. Text at http://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen78zool#page/29/mode/1up [accessed 20 December 2019]
- Miltochrista punicea; Hampson, 1900. Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 2: 481, pl. 32, f. 9; [NHM card]. Text at http://archive.org/stream/catalogueoflepid2brituoft#page/481/mode/1up. [accessed 20 December 2019] Plate at http://archive.org/stream/catalogueoflepid13brit#page/n152/mode/2up. [accessed 20 December 2019]
- Cerny, K. & A. Pinratana. 2009. Moths of Thailand, Vol. 6, Arctiidae. 283 pp. Pl. 15/137b.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2016. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 2, pp 1-214. Nature Books of India, New Delhi. Pg. 74.
- Bayarsaikhan, U. , D. Lee & Y. Bae. 2018. A review of Barsine Walker, 1854 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae) in Cambodia with a new record. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 11. 377-385.
- Volynkin, A.V., Černý, K. and Ivanova, M.S., 2018. Revision of the Barsine punicea Moore, 1878 species-group, with descriptions of two new species and two new subspecies (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 21(3), pp.999-1008.
- Ahmad, J., Shah, S.K., Mishra, P., Joshi, R. and Singh, N., 2023. New record of moths (Lepidoptera) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, pp.13-20.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Fossia punicea (Moore, 1878) – . 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/fossia-punicea, accessed 2025/10/24.