Taxonomic Information
List of Ariolica Walker, [1863], 1864 species known from India.
Ariolica lineolata Walker, [1863] 1864. India: N.E. Himalaya; Sri Lanka.
Ariolica pulchella (Elwes, 1890) (Chionomera). India: Sikkim, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal; Myanmar; Nepal; Bhutan.
Ariolica superba (Moore, 1867) (Tyana). India: Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim, Meghalaya); Bhutan; Nepal.
Ariolica triangulifera (Moore, 1888) (Chionomera). India: Meghalaya.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Ariolica pulchella -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 1 | 4 |
- OD: Chionomera pulchella Elwes, 1890. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. pg. 387, pl. 32, f. 15. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen90scie/page/387/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen90scie/page/n494/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 86/35.
- Kononenko, V. S., & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pl. 30/4.
- Joshi, R., Singh, N. and Kuni, N., 2021. A catalogue of Nolidae Bruand, 1846 from India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5034(1), pp.1-112. Pg. 104, fig. 4.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Ariolica pulchella (Elwes, 1890) – . 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/ariolica-pulchella, accessed 2025/11/10.