Taxonomic Information
Zitha Walker, 1866 species known from India:
Zitha allidibasalis (Hampson, 1896). India: Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.
Zitha castanealis (Hampson, 1896). Bhutan.
Zitha imperatrix Warren, 1896. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Zitha moorei (Rose & Pajni, 1978). India: Chandigarh.
Zitha phaeaptera (Hampson, 1903). Sri Lanka.
Zitha psamathopis (Meyrick, 1894). Myanmar.
Zitha rosealis (Hampson, 1896). Bhutan; India: Margharita, Assam.
Zitha rufifascialis (Hampson, 1896). India: Assam, Nagas, Nagaland.
Zitha tactilis (Swinhoe, 1890). Myanmar, Nilgiri S. Slopes, 3000ft. Tamil Nadu.
Zitha torridalis (Lederer, 1863). Sri Lanka; Myanmar; Bhutan; India.
Zitha tripartita (Hampson, 1917). India: Assam, Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Zitha vibicalis (Lederer, 1863). Sri Lanka; India: Kulu, Himachal Pradesh, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Zitha tactilis -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
- Stemmatophora tactilis Swinhoe, 1890. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1890:290. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14678760#page/326/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs. # 4547, pg 156.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 143: 7. Listed as Koremalepis tactilis.
- Sondhi, Y. & S. Sondhi. 2016. A partial checklist of moths (Lepidoptera) of Dehradun, Mussoorie and Devalsari in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(5): 8756–8776; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2814.8.5.8756-8776. [accessed 25 April 2021] Image 205. Listed as Xitha tactilis.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=314028 [accessed 25 April 2021]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/65454518
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Zitha tactilis (Swinhoe, 1890) – . 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/zitha-tactilis, accessed 2025/10/24.