Taxonomic Information
Herpetogramma Lederer, 1863 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Herpetogramma basalis (Walker, [1866]). Sri Lanka; India.
Herpetogramma bipunctalis (Fabricius, 1794). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills: TL); Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma coptobasalis (Hampson, 1899). Bhutan.
Herpetogramma cynaralis (Walker, 1859). India; Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma latifuscalis (Hampson, 1899). Bhutan.
Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859). India.
Herpetogramma mellealis (Swinhoe, 1890). Myanmar.
Herpetogramma nigricornalis (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Assam, Meghalaya.
Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Herpetogramma rudis (Warren, 1892). India.
Herpetogramma subalbescens (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Meghalaya.
Herpetogramma stultalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma viraktamathi Shankaramurthy & Nagaraj, 2025. India: Karnataka (TL: Kolar, Rajakallahalli).
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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| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
- OD: Botys basalis Walker, 1866. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, London 34, pg. 1404. TL: Sri Lanka.Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120100#page/710/mode/1up
- 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 405, #5161 as Pachyzancla aegrotalis.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxon=Herpetogramma%20basalis [accessed 09 September 2020]
- http://www.jpmoth.org/Crambidae/Pyraustinae/Herpetogramma_basale.html [accessed 09 September 2020]
- http://www.afromoths.net/species/show/13380 [accessed 09 September 2020]
- https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/CRAMBIDAE/SPILOMELINAE/Herpetogramma%20basalis.html
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Herpetogramma basalis (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/herpetogramma-basalis, accessed 2025/11/11.