Taxonomic Information
Hyposidra Guenée, 1857 species known from India.
Hyposidra albifera (Moore, 1879). India: NW Himalaya, Kulu, Himachal Pradesh.
Hyposidra aquilaria (Walker, 1862). India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, West Bengal.
Hyposidra infixaria (Walker, 1860). India: NE India, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Tripura.
Hyposidra murina (Swinhoe, 1891). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh.
Hyposidra picaria (Walker, 1866). India?
Hyposidra polia Hampson, 1896. S. India, Andhra Pradesh; Sri Lanka.
Hyposidra talaca (Walker, 1860). India: throughout India; Sri Lanka.
Hyposidra violescens Hampson, 1895. India: Sikkim, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Hyposidra spp. -
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Other Notes
Media code bu841 and bu809 are probably Hyposidra polia Hampson, 1896
Hyposidra polia Hampson, 1896. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London
pg. 310. TL: Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47589786#page/346/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. 553. TL: Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Text at
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180032#page/585/mode/1up
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1381018-Hyposidra-polia
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Hyposidra spp. Guenée, 1857 – . 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/hyposidra-spp, accessed 2026/03/04.