Taxonomic Information
Pygospila Guenée, 1854 species known from India.
Pygospila bivittalis Walker, 1866. India.
Pygospila costiflexalis Guenée, 1854. W. &. S. India, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Meghalaya; Sri Lanka.
Pygospila cuprealis Swinhoe, 1892. NE India; Myanmar.
Pygospila tyres (Cramer, [1780]). Indian subcontinent.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 | ||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 23 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 3 |
Pygospila tyres (Cramer, [1870]) – Spotted Grass Moth: Holarrhena pubescens, Tabernaemontana alternifolia, Wrightia arborea, Wrightia tinctoria (Apocynaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Phalaena tyres Cramer, [1780]. Uitl. Kapellen. 3 (22): Pl. 263, f. C. Plate at https://archive.org/details/CUbiodiversity1277042-9599/page/PL.+CCLXIII/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 126/14.
- http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/CRAMBIDAE/SPILOMELINAE/pygospila%20tyres.html
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/tyres.html
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Pygospila tyres (Cramer, [1780]) – Spotted Grass Moth. 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/pygospila-tyres, accessed 2025/10/26.