Taxonomic Information
Hypospila Guenée, 1852 species known from India.
Hypospila bolinoides Guenée, 1852. India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Sikkim, West Bengal, Andaman Is.; Nepal.
Hypospila creberrima (Walker, 1858). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Andaman Is.; Bangladesh (TL: Sylhet).
Listed as Tochara creberrima (Walker, 1858) in the Erebidae catalogue of India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 |
- Thermesia creberrima Walker, 1858; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 15: 1574; TL: Silhet. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1315brit/page/1574/mode/1up
- Tochara obliqua Moore, 1882; Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (2): 175, (3): pl. 6, f. 27; TL: Khasia Hills; Cherra. Text at https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/175/mode/1up. Plate at https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/n334/mode/1up
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/creberrima.html
- https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Hypospila_creberrima_En
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/species/tochara-creberrima
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1291919-Hypospila-creberrima
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Hypospila creberrima (Walker, 1858) – . 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/hypospila-creberrima, accessed 2026/03/29.