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Similar species: Ercta elutalis (Walker,1859)
Vide Hampson (1896), Ercta elutalis has an oblique minutely waved postmedial black line with silvery outer edge and angled outwards on vein 2.
Hydriris ornatalis has the postmedial line of forewing nearly straight from costa to vein 3, then bent inwards.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 4 |
Hydriris ornatalis (Duponchel, 1832) – Ornate Hydriris: Convolvulus arvensis, Ipomoea batatas, Ipomoea aitonii (Convolvulaceae), Malus domestica (Rosaeae), Rumex spinosus (Polygonaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD. Asopia ornatalis Duponchel, 1832. 207–208, pl. 223 fig. 8). Type locality: Italy, Sicily.
- 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. 274, # 4812. Listed as Ercta ornatalis.
- Hampson, G. F. 1898. A revision of the Moths of the subfamily Pyraustinae and family Pyralidae. Part 1 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1898 : 590-761, pl. 49-50.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=317367 [accessed 07 December 2019]
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/ornatalis.html [accessed 07 December 2019]
- http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Hydriris_Ornatalis [accessed 07 December 2019]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/199428-Hydriris-ornatalis
- http://www.jpmoth.org/Crambidae/Pyraustinae/Hydriris_ornatalis.html [accessed 07 December 2019] http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/CRAMBIDAE/SPILOMELINAE/hydriris%20ornatalis.html [accessed 07 December 2019]
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Hydriris ornatalis (Duponchel, 1832) – Ornate Hydriris. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/hydriris-ornatalis, accessed 2024/04/23.