Taxonomic Information
Herdonia Walker, 1859 species known from India:
Herdonia approximata Inoue, 1993
Herdonia gigantea Inoue, 1993
Herdonia osacesalis Walker, 1859
Herdonia thaiensis Inoue, 1993
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- OD: Herdonia osacesalis Walker, 1859; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 19: 964. TL: Sylhet. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso1921brit#page/964/mode/1up.
- Shashank, P. R. (2016). Report on the genus Herdonia Walker (Lepidoptera: Thyrididae) in Karnataka Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 8(2), 8531-8532.
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 48.5
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572.Image 17.
- http://pyralidsofborneo.org/index.php?herdonia-osacesalis-walker-1859e-plate-4-not-borneo. [accessed 09 August 2021]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Herdonia osacesalis Walker, 1859 – . 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/herdonia-osacesalis, accessed 2025/11/03.




