Taxonomic Information
Asota Hübner, [1819] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Asota canaraica Moore, 1878. India: Kerala, Karnataka (TL " Canara"), Maharashtra
Asota caricae Fabricius, 1775. Sri Lanka; India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Asota clara Butler, 1875. Myanmar.
Asota contorta (Aurivillius, 1894): India: West Bengal.
Asota egens (Walker, 1854). Nepal; Myanmar; India: Andaman & Nicobar Is., Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Tripura, West Bengal.
Asota ficus Fabricius, 1775. Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India: Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand.
Asota heliconia (Linnaeus, 1758). India: Andaman & Nicobar Is., Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu.
Asota paphos (Fabricius, 1787). India: NE Himalaya.
Asota paliura (Swinhoe, 1893). India: Kerala.
Asota plaginota Butler, 1875. Nepal; Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Asota plana (Walker, 1854). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Tripura; Bangladesh; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Asota producta (Butler, 1875). Sri Lanka; India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu.
Asota sericea Moore, 1878. India: Karnataka (TL: Canara), Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu.
Asota tortuosa Moore, 1872. Nepal; Myanmar; India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
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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| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tripura | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- Moths 1. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig. Pg 502, # 1148 as Hypsa alciphron form plaginota
- Moths of Nepal. Part 1. Pl 17 fg.4
- Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Plate 34.
- Aganainae (Snouted tigers). Website accessed August 2015.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Asota plaginota (Butler, 1875) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/index.php/asota-plaginota, accessed 2025/08/15.