Taxonomic Information
Pachynoa Lederer, 1963 species known from India.
Pachynoa fuscilalis Hampson, 1891. India: Tamil Nadu, Nilgiri, S. slopes, 3000 ft (TL), Karnataka, Maharashtra.
Pachynoa grossalis (Guenée, 1854) (Botys). India: Meghalaya, Assam, Andaman Is.
Pachynoa hypsalis Hampson, 1896. India: Sikkim (TL), Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Pachynoa mineusalis (Walker, 1859) (Zebronia). India: West Bengal; Myanmar.
Pachynoa sabelialis (Guenée, 1854) (Botys). India: Central India (TL), Chhatisgarh, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala,
Pachynoa spilosomoides (Moore, 1886) (Pitacanda). Sri Lanka (TL).
Pachynoa xanthochyta (Turner, 1933) (Hypermeces). Australia (TL), India: Andaman & Nicobar Is.
Pachynoa thoosalis (Walker, 1859) (Botys). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Botys thoosalis Walker, 1859. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. 18: 737. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120189#page/767/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. 396, # 5139.
- Robinson, G.S., K.R.Tuck, M. Shaffer & K. Cook. 1994. The Smaller Moths of South-East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 308 pp., 51 figs., 32 pls. Pl. 32/11.
- Ko, J.H., Lee, T.G., Na, S.M. and Bae, Y.S., 2018. A new record of Pachynoa Lederer, 1863 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae) from Laos. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 11(3), pp.395-398. Fig. 1: C, D.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/50_PYRALOIDEA/Crambidae/63.9_Pyraustinae/Pachynoa/Pachynoa%20thoosalis/Pachynoa%20thoosalis.htm [accessed 11 February 2018]
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=365696 [accessed 11 February 2018]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/625184-Pachynoa-thoosalis
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Pachynoa thoosalis (Walker, 1859) – . 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/pachynoa-thoosalis, accessed 2025/11/10.