Taxonomic Information
Glyphodes Guenée, 1854 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Glyphodes bicolor (Swainson, 1821). India.
Glyphodes bivitralis Guenée, 1854. India.
Glyphodes caesalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India: Mainland India, Andamans.
Glyphodes callizona (Meyrick, 1894). Myanmar.
Glyphodes canthusalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; India: Mainland India, Andaman Islands.
Glyphodes chilka Moore, 1888. India: Bengal.
Glyphodes cupripennalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes dysallactalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes ernalis Swinhoe, 1894. India.
Glyphodes lacustralis Moore, 1867. India. (Verification needed)
Glyphodes microta Meyrick, 1890. Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes minimalis Hampson, 1896. Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes negatalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India.
Glyphodes naralis Felder, Felder & Rogenhofer, [1875]. India: Sikkim.
Glyphodes nilgirica Hampson, 1896. India: Nilgiris.
Glyphodes onychinalis (Guenée, 1854). Sri Lanka; India.
Glyphodes orbiferalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes prothymalis Swinhoe, 1892. India: Meghalaya.
Glyphodes pulverulentalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar; India: Assam.
Glyphodes proximalis Snellen, 1899. India.
Glyphodes pyloalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India.
Glyphodes vertumnalis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Glyphodes westermani Snellen, 1877. Bhutan.
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Similar species:Glyphodes bicolor (Swainson, 1821)
Separated from Glyphodes bicolor on account of oblique medial band on FW, not touching inner margin and presence of pale postmedial line originating from costa.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 3 |
Glyphodes bivitralis Guenée, 1854: Cajanus cajan (Fabaceae), Ficus elastica, Ficus hispida, Ficus religiosa (Moraceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs. Pg. 355, # 5038.
- Robinson, G.S., Tuck, K.R. & Shaffer, M., 1994. A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of South-East Asia. The Natural History Museum, London & Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. Plate 32, no. 5.
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Glyphodes bivitralis Guenée, 1854 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.60. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/glyphodes-bivitralis, accessed 2023/10/03.