Taxonomic Information
Rusicada Walker, 1858 species known from India.
Rusicada albitibia (Walker, [1858]). Sri Lanka.
Rusicada combinans (Walker, [1858]). Sri Lanka; Nepal; India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Rusicada fulvida (Guenée, 1852). Sri Lanka; India.
Rusicada leucolopha (Prout, 1928). India: NE Himalaya.
Rusicada lineosa (Walker, 1865). India.
Rusicada metaxantha (Walker, [1858]).Nepal; India: NE Himalaya.
Rusicada nigritarsis Walker, [1858]. Sri Lanka; India.
Rusicada prima (Swinhoe, 1920). India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similar species to Rusicada combinans:
Rusicada leucolopha Prout, 1928. See at https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/125311-Rusicada-leucolopha
Rusicada prima Swinhoe, 1920. See at https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/988465-Rusicada-prima
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 |
- Gonitis combinans Walker, [1858]. List Specimens lepid. Insects Colin Br. Mus. 13: 1001. TL: Ceylon. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1315brit/page/1001/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 49/9.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 261 pp. + 45 pls. Pl. 3/6-8.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=283180
- https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Anomis_combinans_En
- http://insecta.pro/taxonomy/70772
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/558163-Rusicada-combinans
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/scoliopterygini/scoliopterygini_5_3.php
Based on MOB: The remaining species have the forewing reniform with the posterior lobe equal to, or larger than, the anterior one: it is definitely larger in combinans and filled with paler grey or dark brown, rather than with the orange ground-colour.
https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/scoliopterygini/scoliopterygini_5.php for key to rusicada.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Rusicada combinans (Walker,[1858]) – . 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/rusicada-combinans, accessed 2025/11/04.