Taxonomic Information
Pycnarmon Lederer, 1863 species known from India.
Pycnarmon abraxalis (Walker, [1866]). Bhutan; India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Pycnarmon aeriferalis (Moore, 1877). India: Sikkim, S. Andamans (Port Blair).
Pycnarmon cribrata (Fabricius, 1794). Sri Lanka; India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Pycnarmon dryocentra (Meyrick, 1933). India: Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Pycnarmon jaguaralis (Guenée, 1854). Bhutan; India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal.
Pycnarmon lactiferalis (Walker, 1859). India: West Bengal, Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand.
Pycnarmon marginalis (Snellen, 1890). India: Sikkim.
Pycnarmon meritalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Maharashtra, Karnataka.
Pycnarmon nebulosalis Hampson, 1896. Sri Lanka.
Pycnarmon obinusalis Walker, 1859. Eastern Pakistan; India: W India.
Pycnarmon pulchralis (Swinhoe, 1901). Myanmar.
Pycnarmon radiata (Warren, 1896). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Pycnarmon virgatalis Moore, 1867. Sri Lanka; India: West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Uttarakhand.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| West Bengal | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 7 | 1 |
- OD: Zebronia meritalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 17: 479. TL: Sri Lanka. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1618brit/page/479/mode/1up?view=theater
- Zebronia plexippusalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 17: 485. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1618brit/page/485/mode/1up?view=theater
- Conchylodes baptalis Snellen, 1880. Tijdschr. Ent. 23: 238, 27: pl. 4, f. 7; TL: Celebes, Takalar. Plate at https://archive.org/details/tijdschriftvoore8384nede/page/n390/mode/1up?view=theater
- Aripana annulata Warren, 1896. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 18 (104): 168. TL: Khasi Hills. Text at https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazineof6181896lond/page/168/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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. 259, # 4777.
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/meritalis.html images are probably those of P. cribrata.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/319483-Pycnarmon-meritalis
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Pycnarmon meritalis (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/pycnarmon-meritalis, accessed 2025/11/10.