Taxonomic Information
Cirrhochrista Lederer, 1863 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Cirrhochrista annulifera Hampson, 1919. India; Meghalaya (?). Needs verification.
Cirrhochrista bracteolalis Hampson, 1891. India: Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Karnataka, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra.
Cirrhochrista brizoalis (Walker, 1859). India: Arunachal, West Bengal, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, Chandigarh, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh.
Cirrhochrista fumipalpis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh.
Cirrhochrista fuscusa Chen, Song & Wu, 2006. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya.
Cirrhochrista pulchellalis Lederer, 1863. India: Bihar, Jharkhand, Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Assam.
Cirrhochrista semibrunnea Hampson, 1896. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, West Bengal.
Cirrhochrista spissalis (Guenée, 1854). India: Meghalaya (Khasis), Nagaland.
Cirrhochrista annulifera Hampson, 1919 is an extralimital species and its status in India needs investigation.
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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| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 2 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8 |
- OD: Margaronia brizoalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 19: 976 at http://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso1921brit#page/976/mode/1up [accessed 01 August 2017]
- 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 49, #4272.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. pl 142-1.
- Gurule, S & S. M. Nikam. 2013. The moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of northern Maharashtra: a preliminary checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(12): 4693–4713; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2555.4693-713. Image 20.
- Irungbam, J. S., M. S. Chib & K. Wangdi. 2016. Taxonomic review of the superfamily Pyraloidea in Bhutan (Lepidoptera). Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 9 (2016). pp. 355-382 Figure 7, D.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrhochrista_brizoalis
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/brizoalis.html [accessed 01 August 2017]
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=313965
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Cirrhochrista brizoalis (Walker, 1859) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.92. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/cirrhochrista-brizoalis, accessed 2025/08/02.