Taxonomic Information
Indarbela Fletcher, 1922 species known from India.
Indarbela quadrinotata Walker, 1856. Sri Lanka; India.
Yakovlev et al, (2025) synonimized Indarbela tetraonis Moore, 1879 with Indarbela quadrinotata Walker, 1856, making Indarbela Fletcher, 1922 a monotypic genus.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Indarbela tetraonis (Moore, 1879): Samania saman, Pongamia pinnata, Prosopis spp. (Fabaceae) Anacardium occidentale (Anacardiaceae), Artocarpus heterophyllus (Moraceae), Camellia sinensis (Theaceae), Casuarina equisetifolia (Casuarinaceae), Ceiba pentandra (Malvaceae), Citrus spp. (Rutaceae), Syzygium cumini, Psidium guajava (Myrtaceae), Litchi chinensis (Sapindaceae), Madhuca longifolia var. Latifolia (Sapotaceae), Moringa (Moringaceae), Morus alba (Moraceae), Muntingia calabura (Muntingiaceae), Phyllanthus emblica (Phyllanthaceae), Platanus orientalis (Platanaceae), Punica granatum (Lythraceae), Rosa spp. (Rosaceae), Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae), Syzygium cumini, Eucalyptus deglupta (Myrtaceae), Tectona grandis (Lamiaceae), Terminalia arjuna, Terminalia myriocarpa (Combretaceae), Ziziphus jujuba, Ziziphus mauritiana (Rhamnaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Cossus quadrinotata Walker, 1856. List. Let. Het. Brit. Mus. 7:1521. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120028#page/21/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig., pg. 314, # 674 as Arbela quadrinotata.
- Arbela tetraonis Moore, 1879; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879: 411, pl. 34, f. 3; TL: Bombay. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen792zool/page/411/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen792zool/page/n129/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig. pg. 315, # 675 as Arbela tetraonis.
- Yakovlev, R.V. and Zolotuhin, V.V., 2020. Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. I. Introduction and genera Encaumaptera Hampson 1893, Orgyarbela gen. nov., and Hollowarbela gen. nov. Ecologica Montenegrina, 38, pp.84-101. Fig. 1 & 2.
- Ahmad, J., Joshi, R. and Singh, N., 2023. An updated catalogue of Cossoidea (Lepidoptera) from India. Zootaxa, 5330(3), pp.301-348.
- Yakovlev, R.V., Hulsbosch, R., Ahmad, J. and Singh, N., 2025. Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. XIII. Genus Indarbela Fletcher, 1922. Zootaxa, 5661(4), pp.553-560.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Indarbela quadrinotatus (Walker, 1856) – . 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/indarbela-quadrinotatus, accessed 2025/10/31.