Taxonomic Information
Pyrausta Schrank, 1802 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Pyrausta acutidentalis Hampson, 1896. TL: Sikkim.
Pyrausta atrifusalis Hampson, 1903. TL: Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh.
Pyrausta aurantifascialis Hampson, 1896. TL: Myanmar.
Pyrausta bambucivora (Moore, 1888). TL: West Bengal.
Pyrausta benenotata (Swinhoe, 1894). TL: Cherrapunji, Meghalaya.
Pyrausta bisignata (Butler, 1889). TL: Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh.
Pyrausta bitincta Meyrick, 1932. TL: Nigiris, Tamil Nadu.
Pyrausta canotinctalis Hampson, 1896. TL: Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh.
Pyrausta coactalis (Snellen, 1890). TL:Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Pyrausta euprepialis Hampson, 1903. TL: Chamba, Himachal Pradesh.
Pyrausta euralis Hampson, 1903. TL: Kashmir.
Pyrausta ferrifusalis (Hampson, 1893. TL: Sri Lanka.
Pyrausta foviferalis Hampson, 1896. TL: Myanmar.
Pyrausta kenalis Swinhoe, 1900. TL: India.
Pyrausta maledictalis Hampson, 1899. TL: Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Pyrausta metasialis Hampson, 1912. TL: Sikkim.
Pyrausta microdontalis Hampson, 1912. TL: Sri Lanka.
Pyrausta minimalis Hampson, 1903. TL: Gujarat.
Pyrausta monosema Hampson, 1912. TL: Punjab, Pakistan.
Pyrausta nigritalis Hampson, 1896. TL: Myanmar.
Pyrausta ochracealis Walker, 1865. India: S. india; Sri Lanka.
Pyrausta phragmatidalis Hampson, 1908. TL: Sikkim.
Pyrausta phoenicealis Hübner, 1818. India.
Pyrausta purpurascens (Hampson, 1893). TL: Sri Lanka.
Pyrausta rahiledawut Koçak & Kemal, 2021. TL: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Pyrausta rubellalis (Snellen, 1890). TL: Sikkim.
Pyrausta rubritinctalis (Warren, 1895). TL: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Pyrausta rubritinetalis Hampson, 1919. TL: Nubra Valley, Ladakh.
Pyrausta sikkima (Moore, 1888). TL:Darjeeling, West Bengal, Dharmasala, Himachal Pradesh.
Pyrausta silhetalis Guenée, 1854. TL: Sylhet, Bangladesh; Himalaya.
Pyrausta vitellinalis (Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844). TL: Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.
Pyrausta xanthothysana Hampson, 1903. TL: Sikkim.
From Nuss et al. (2022), at http://globiz.pyraloidea.org [accessed 17 January 2022] (Accessed on 17 Jan 2022).
Unconfirmed records.
Pyrausta tetraplagalis Hampson, 1898. Listed in Chandra et al. 2020 from the Western Ghats, but this is an African species.
Pyrausta signatalis (Walker, [1866]). Listed in Chandra et al. 2020 from the Western Ghats, but this is an N. American species.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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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 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | |||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 32 | 8 |
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Pyrausta spp. Schrank, 1802 – . 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/pyrausta-spp, accessed 2025/11/07.