Taxonomic Information
Penicillaria Guenée, 1852 species known from India.
Penicillaria jocosatrix Guenée, 1852. Indo-Australian tropics.
Penicillaria lineatrix Walker, 1858. S. India (TL: "Canara"), Maharashtra.
Penicillaria maculata Butler, 1889. Oriental tropics.
Penicillaria nugatrix Guenée, 1852. India.
Penicillaria plusioides (Walker, 1862). Oriental tropics; India: Arunachal Pradesh, Naga Hills.
Penicillaria simplex (Walker, 1865). Oriental tropics.
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| Total | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
Penicillaria jocosatrix Guenée, 1852 – Mango Shoot Borer: Mangifera indica, Schinus terebinthifolia, Spondias pinnata (Anacardiaceae), Terminalia bellirica (Combretaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Penicillaria jocosatrix Guenée, 1852. in Boisduval & Guenée, Hist. Nat. Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.) 6: 304; TL: Java.
- 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. 393, # 2265 as Eutelia jocosatrix.
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/eute/jocosatrix.html
- http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Penicillaria-jocosatrix.php
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-14/euteliinae/euteliinae_1_1.php
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202823-Penicillaria-jocosatrix
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Penicillaria jocosatrix Guenée, 1852 – Mango Shoot Borer. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/penicillaria-jocosatrix, accessed 2024/10/08.