Taxonomic Information
Sesamia Guenée, 1852 species known from India.
Sesamia cretica Lederer, 1857. India.
Sesamia griselda Warren, 1913. Sri Lanka.
Sesamia inferens (Walker, 1856). Indo-Australian tropics.
Sesamia pallida (Butler, 1883). India: Madhya Pradesh.
Sesamia uniformis (Dudgeon, 1905). India: Gujarat, “Bengal”.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Sesamia inferens -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
- OD: Leucania inferens Walker, 1856. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 9: 105; TL: Ceylon. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimens09brit/page/105/mode/1up?view=theater
- Sesamia inferens; Hampson, 1910. Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 9: 327, f. 144; Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid09brituoft/page/327/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs.pg. 284, # 1943 as Nonagria inferens.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 15/15.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pl. 47/10-11.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-12/amphipyrinae/amphipyrinae_10_1.php
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Sesamia inferens (Walker, 1856) – . 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/sesamia-inferens, accessed 2025/11/08.