Hulodes saturnioides Guenée, 1852 -

Taxonomic Information

Hulodes Guenée, 1852 species known from India.
Hulodes caranea (Cramer, [1780]). Sri Lanka; Indian Subregion: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, West Bengal, Tripura, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka; Nepal; Myanmar.
Hulodes donata (Schultze, 1907). Myanmar; Indian Subregion: Assam.
Hulodes drylla Guenée, 1852. Myanmar; India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh; Bangladesh.
Hulodes saturnioides Guenée, 1852. India: Central India, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh; Bangladesh (TL: Sylhet).

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya1
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total11
  1. Hulodes saturnioides Guenée, 1852; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 7 (Noct. 3): 209; TL: India. Text at https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell07bois/page/209/mode/1up (in French). 
  2. Hypopyra restorans Walker, 1858; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 14: 1328; TL: Hindostan; Silhet. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1315brit/page/1328/mode/1up
  3. Joshi, R., Zahiri, R., Banerjee, D. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5635(1), pp.1-247.
  4. http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/hulodini/hulodini_1_2.php

Page citation

Anonymous 2026. Hulodes saturnioides Guenée, 1852 – . 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/hulodes-saturnioides, accessed 2026/03/21.