Taxonomic Information
Maruca Walker, 1859 species known from India.
Maruca vitrata (Fabricius, 1787). Throughout India,
Maruca amboinalis (Felder & Rogenhofer, [1875]). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra.
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | |||||
| Kerala | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 4 | ||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||
| Total | 14 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 22 | 18 | 29 |
Maruca vitrata Fabricius, 1787 - Maruca Pod-borer: Lablab purpureus, Cajanus cajan (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Phalaena vitrata Fabricius, 1787. Mant. insectorum, 2:215. TL: Tranquiebariae, India.
- pg 393, # 5134 as Maruca testulalis.
- Image no. 5.
- Insect Pests - NBAIR. http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Maruca-vitrata.php [accessed 09 Sep 2016]
- Wikipedia contributors. Maruca vitrata [Internet]. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia; 2015 Apr 29, 09:03 UTC [cited 2015 Oct 7]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maruca_vitrata&oldid=659838049.
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Maruca vitrata (Fabricius, 1787) – Maruca Pod Borer, Legume Pod Borer, Mung Bean Moth. In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.2. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/maruca-vitrata, accessed 2026/04/28.