Taxonomic Information
Herpetogramma Lederer, 1863 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Herpetogramma basalis (Walker, [1866]). Sri Lanka; India.
Herpetogramma bipunctalis (Fabricius, 1794). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills: TL); Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma coptobasalis (Hampson, 1899). Bhutan.
Herpetogramma cynaralis (Walker, 1859). India; Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma latifuscalis (Hampson, 1899). Bhutan.
Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859). India.
Herpetogramma mellealis (Swinhoe, 1890). Myanmar.
Herpetogramma nigricornalis (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Assam, Meghalaya.
Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Herpetogramma rudis (Warren, 1892). India.
Herpetogramma subalbescens (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Meghalaya.
Herpetogramma stultalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma viraktamathi Shankaramurthy & Nagaraj, 2025. India: Karnataka (TL: Kolar, Rajakallahalli).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Herpetogramma phaeopteralis - Tropical Sod Webworm
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Uttarakhand | 3 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 3 |
- OD: Botys phaeopteralis Guenée, 1854. Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 8: 349
- 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. 402. As Pachyzancla phaeopteralis.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 142/26
- Landry, B., 2020. Taxonomic revision of the Spilomelinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae sl) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 123 (2), pp.315-399. Fig. 20-21.
- http://www.afromoths.net/species/show/13402
- https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/CRAMBIDAE/SPILOMELINAE/herpetogramma%20phaeopteralis.html
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854) – Tropical Sod Webworm. 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/herpetogramma-phaeopteralis, accessed 2025/10/24.