Taxonomic Information
Saroba Hampson, 1926 species known from India.
Saroba maculicosta (Walker, 1858). Sri Lanka; Myanmar, India: Andaman Is..
“Saroba” ceylonica (Walker, 1865). N. India; Sri Lanka; Myanmar.
Saroba melanopasta Hampson, 1926. India: Assam (TL).
Saroba mediorufa (Hampson, 1894). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland.
Saroba ochreisparsa (Hampson, 1895). India: Nagaland; Myanmar.
Saroba pustulifera Walker, 1865. India: Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Goa; Sri Lanka; Bhutan.
Note: Hreblay (2022) suggested a new combination for Platyjionia mediorufa (Hampson, 1894) as Saroba mediorufa (Hampson, 1894). Joshi et al (2025) also list this as Saroba mediorufa (Hampson, 1894).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
- OD: Thermesia mediorufa Hampson, 1894. Fauna Br. India, Moths, 2: 536.
- Platyja sada Swinhoe, 1903, Fasc. Malay. Zool., 1: 79.
- Capnodes brunnea Swinhoe, 1906, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 17: 550.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera (in Thailand: Part 1. Bangkok, Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand. 261 pp., 45 pls.Pl. 12/23-26. Pg. 49.
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Image 203.
- Hreblay, M. 2022. Beitrag zur Noctuidenfauna von Nord-Thailand (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) = Adatok Észak-Thaiföld Noctuidae faunájának ismeretéhez (Lepidoptera) Ann. Mus. hist.-nat. hung. 114 : 25-128.
- Joshi, R., Zahiri, R., Banerjee, D. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5635(1), pp.1-247.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/miscellaneous_vi/miscellaneousvi_1_1.php
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/335021-Platyjionia-mediorufa
Note: Hreblay (2022) suggested a new combination as Saroba mediorufa (Hampson, 1894). Joshi et al (2025) also list this as Saroba mediorufa (Hampson, 1894). Changed on MOI on 7 April 2026 (SS).
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Saroba mediorufa (Hampson, 1894) – . 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/platyjionia-mediorufa, accessed 2026/05/13.