Subspecies in India
Taxonomic Information
Comostola Meyrick, 1888 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Comostola caerulea Warren, 1893. India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola cedilla Prout, 1917. India: Andaman Is.
Comostola chlorargyra (Walker, 1861). India sub-region.
Comostola dispansa (Walker, 1861). Sri Lanka.
Comostola dyakaria (Walker, 1861). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004. India: Uttarakhand (TL: Bhimtal), Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Comostola hypotyphla Prout, 1917. India: Himachal Pradesh (Dalhousie).
Comostola inops Prout, 1912. India: Kashmir: Lidda Valley, Lidderwat, 6700ft, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola laesaria (Walker, 1861). India; Sri Lanka (TL).
Comostola leucosticta Yazaki, 1993. India: Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal (TL).
Comostola maculata (Moore, 1868). India: West Bengal.
Comostola meritaria (Walker, 1861). India; Sri Lanka (TL).
Comostola multimaculata (Pajni & Walia, 1984). India: Himachal Pradesh (Nauni).
Comostola mundata Warren, 1896. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Comostola ovifera (Warren, 1893). India: Sikkim; Tibet.
Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866). South India.
Comostola quantula (Swinhoe, 1886). India: Maharashtra (Mumbai).
Comostola subtiliaria (Bremer, 1864). Himalayas.
Comostola subtiliaria demeritaria Prout, 1917. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Comostola turgescens (Prout, 1917). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola virago Prout, 1926. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Conservation and Special status
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similiar species:
Both C. turgescens and C. pyrrhogona have pale blue-green wings with marginal red beading. At the forewing tornus this is narrow with a slight cornute extension in Bornean pyrrhogona but conspicuously broadened in C. turgescens Prout. (Vide Moths of Borneo). These species are best separated by examining male genitalia.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Bihar | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
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| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
- OD: Eucrostis pyrrhogona Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 35:1610.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=123824 [accessed 21 February 2018]
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/geom/pyrrhogona.html
- http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1087158
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_48_10.php [accessed 21 February 2018]
Other Notes
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866) – . 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/index.php/comostola-pyrrhogona, accessed 2025/11/09.