Taxonomic Information
Dichocrocis Lederer, 1863 species known from India.
Dichocrocis actinialis Hampson, 1898. India: Meghalaya (Khasis).
Dichocrocis bistrigalis (Walker, 1866). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Dichocrocis definita (Butler, 1889). Himalayas.
Dichocrocis festivalis (Swinhoe, 1885). India: Maharshtra (Mumbai [Bombay] (TL). )
Dichocrocis macrostidza Hampson, 1912. Myanmar.
Dichocrocis plutusalis (Walker, 1859). India: NE India.
Dichocrocis pyrrhalis (Walker, 1859). India: Nilgiris; Sri Lanka.
Dichocrocis rigidalis (Snellen, 1890). NE Himalaya, Karnataka.
Dichocrocis revidata (Fabricius, 1787). S. India.
Dichocrocis zebralis (Moore, 1867). NE Himalaya.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Dichocrocis definita -
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
- OD: Haritala definita Butler, 1889. Ill. Het. 7: 97. Pl. 133, f. 9. TL: Himalayas, Assam.
- 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. 308, # 4899.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 124/27.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/355422-Dichocrocis-definita
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Dichocrocis definita (Butler, 1889) – . 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/dichocrocis-definita, accessed 2025/11/05.