Taxonomic Information
List of species of Edosa Walker, 1886 known from India.
Edosa subochraceella (Walsingham, 1886). Myanmar; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Edosa orphnodes (Meyrick, 1911). India; Nepal.
Edosa caerulipennis (Erschoff, 1874). TL : India.
Edosa glossoptera Rose & Pathania, 2003. TL : India.
Edosa caradjella (Zagulajev, 1964). TL : India.
Edosa citrocoma (Meyrick, 1924). TL : India.
Edosa darjeelingella (Zagulajev, 1964). TL: India.
Edosa exhausta (Meyrick, 1917). TL: India; Nepal; Pakistan.
Edosa isopela (Meyrick, 1917). TL: India.
Edosa nestoria (Meyrick, 1910) . TL: India.
Edosa opisgona (Meyrick, 1911). TL: India; Sri Lanka.
Edosa orphnodes (Meyrick, 1911). TL: India; Nepal.
Edosa paraglossoptera Rose & Pathania, 2003. TL: India.
Edosa platyntis (Meyrick, 1894). Myanmar; India.
Edosa pyriata (Meyrick, 1917). TL: India.
Edosa sacerdos (Walsingham, 1885). TL: India.
Edosa subochraceella (Walsingham, 1886)..TL: India; Nepal; Burma; Sri Lanka.
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 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
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| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
- Rose, H.S. & P.C. Pathania 2003. Taxonomic studies on the genus Edosa Walker (Lepidoptera: Tineidae: Perissomasticinae) from India. Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology 23(3): 201–211.
- Katewa, A. & P.C. Pathania. 2019. Moths of the superfamily Tineoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) from the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(7): 13931–13936. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.4436.11.7.13931-13936
- Yang, L., Wang, S. and Li, H., 2014. A taxonomic revision of the genus Edosa Walker, 1886 from China (Lepidoptera, Tineidae, Perissomasticinae). Zootaxa, 3777(1), pp.001-102.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Edosa spp. Walker, 1886 – . 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/edosa-spp, accessed 2025/11/10.