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; India: Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
https://www.papua-insects.nl/insect%20orders/Lepidoptera/Euteliidae/Euteliinae/Penicillaria/Penicillaria%20simplex.htm, mentions similar looking species & their differences
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Eutelia simplex Walker, 1865. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, 33. pg. 824. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/824/mode/1up?view=theater
- Bombotella simplex; Seitz, A. (Ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Vol. 11 , g. 353. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/252298#page/363/mode/1up & Pl 32b
- Moths of Nepal part 2 , Pl 42/13
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-14/euteliinae/euteliinae_1_2.php
- https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=722293
- http://dearlep.tw/species.html?namecode=346639&photo_id=cad9447351afb489749d6a9b10624a5https://twmoth.tbri.gov.tw/peo/FBMothInfo/239131
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/03_EUTELIDAE/01_EUTELIINAE/01_Penicillaria/Penicillaria_simplex/Penicillaria_simplex.htm
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Penicillaria simplex (Walker, 1865) – . 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/penicillaria-simplex, accessed 2025/10/30.