Taxonomic Information
Glyphodes Guenée, 1854 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Glyphodes actorionalis Walker, 1859. India.
Glyphodes badialis (Walker, 1859). India: Arunachal Pradesh. Provisionally identified.
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 crithealis (Walker, 1859). India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal.
Glyphodes cupripennalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes dysallactalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes ernalis Swinhoe, 1894. India.
Glyphodes lacustralis Moore, 1867. India: West Bengal, Meghalaya.
Glyphodes microta Meyrick, 1890. Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes minimalis Hampson, 1896. S. India; Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes negatalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India.
Glyphodes naralis Felder, Felder & Rogenhofer, [1875]. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal.
Glyphodes nilgirica Hampson, 1896. India: Nilgiris.
Glyphodes orbiferalis Hampson, 1896. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Nagaland; Myanmar.
Glyphodes prothymalis Swinhoe, 1892. India: Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
Glyphodes pulverulentalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar; India: Assam.
Glyphodes proximalis Snellen, 1899. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Glyphodes pyloalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India.
Glyphodes stolalis Guenée, 1854. India.
Glyphodes vertumnalis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Glyphodes westermani Snellen, 1877. Bhutan.
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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| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| Kerala | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
Glyphodes caesalis (Walker, 1859) – Jack Fruit Borer: Artocarpus chama, Artocarpus elasticus, Artocarpus heterophyllus, Artocarpus integer, Artocarpus lacucha, Ficus religiosa (Moraceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Glyphosalis caesalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 17: 499 at http://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso1618brit#page/499/mode/1up [accessed 30 October 2017]
- 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 356, # 5040.
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (insecta : lepidoptera) of Hong Kong. Pl. 14/30
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphodes_caesalis
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/caesalis.html [accessed 30 October 2017]
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=265678 [accessed 30 October 2017]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Glyphodes caesalis (Walker, 1859) – Jack Fruit Borer. 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/glyphodes-caesalis, accessed 2025/11/03.