Taxonomic Information
Samea Guenée, 1854 species known from India.
Samea bipunctalis Warren, 1888. Pakistan.
Samea castoralis (Walker, 1859). India.
Samea purpurascens Moore, 1877. India: Port Blair, S. Andamans.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Samea castoralis -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 |
- Botys castoralis Walker, 1859. Pyralides, In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 18: 509-798.TL: Sarawak. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120189#page/723/mode/1up
- Moore, F. (1877). The Lepidopterous Fauna of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Proc. zool. soc. Lond: 580-632, pls. 58-60.
- Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs. Pg 426, # 5213 as Pionea castoralis.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=317381 [accessed 10 September 2020]
- http://pyralids.plattenbaukasten.de/index.php?castoralis [accessed 10 September 2020] as Cotachena castoralis.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Samea castoralis (Walker, 1859) – . 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/samea-castoralis, accessed 2025/10/25.