
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
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- Callidula erycinoides Walker, 1869. Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera. pg. 3. Text at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/61132#page/13/mode/1up
- 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 #92 fg.221 as Callidula erycinoides.
- Smetacek, P. 1997. Record of a diurnal moth Callidula erycinoides Walker (Lepidoptera: Callidulidae) from the W. Himalaya, Indian Journal of Biodiversity 1(1), 171-172.
- Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A. & Lyal, C. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 21 April 2021] [erycinoides Walker, 1869 accessed 22 August 2015]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Petavia erycinoides Walker, 1869 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.82. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/petavia-erycinoides, accessed 2025/02/15.