Taxonomic Information
Petavia Horsfield, 1828 species known from India.
Petavia erycinoides Walker, 1869. India: Uttarakhand, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, West Bengal.
Petavia attenuata (Moore, 1879). India: Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya.
Originally combination Callidula erycinoides. Current combination in LepIndex Petavia erycinoides. Callidula erycinoides Felder, 1874 is a different species.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Petavia attenuata -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | ||||||||||||
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| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 3 | 1 |
- Datanga attenuata Moore, 1879. In: Hewitson & Moore, Desc. new Indian lepid. Insects Colln. late Mr. Atkinson, pg. 21.
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig. pg. 324, # 693
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A. and Sanyal, A. K. 2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through Long Term Monitoring Plots: 1-457. Pl 48. fig. 10. Pg 324.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Haruta%20Collection/70_Calidulidae/Callidula%20attenuata/Callidula%20attenuata.htm
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/544438-Callidula-attenuata many incorrectly identified individuals.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Petavia attenuata (Moore, 1879) – . 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/Petavia-attenuata, accessed 2025/11/03.