Taxonomic Information
Simplicia Guenée, 1854 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Simplicia bimarginata (Walker, [1864]). India; Sri Lanka.
Simplicia concisalis (Walker, [1866]). Indo-China.
Simplicia cornicalis (Fabricius, 1794). Indo-China. India: Mumbai, Kolkatta.
Simplicia mistacalis (Guenée, 1854). Central India, West Bengal.
Simplicia moorei Swinhoe, 1919. India; Sri Lanka.
Simplicia murinalis (Moore, 1867). India: West Bengal.
Simplicia niphona (Butler, 1878). “India”.
Simplicia xanthoma Prout, 1928. Nepal; India.
Simplicia discosticta (Hampson, 1912). Sri Lanka.
Simplicia robustalis (Guenée, 1854). C. India.
Simplicia turpatalis (Walker, [1859]). Sri Lanka.
Simplicia zanclonathalis (Strand, 1920). India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Simplicia schaldusalis Walker, [1859]. India
Simplicia marginata Moore, 1882 is treated as a synonym for Simplicia mistacalis (Guenée, 1854).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Simplicia schaldusalis -
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| Total | 1 |
- Bocana schaldusalis Walker, [1859]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 16: 180; TL: Borneo, Sarawak. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1618brit/page/179/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg. 35, # 2794.
- Simplicia trilinea Bethune-Baker, 1908. Novit. Zool. 15: 205; TL: British New Guinea, Dinawa Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi15lond/page/205/mode/1up?view=theater
- Holloway, J. D. 2008. The Moths of Borneo. Part 17.Family Noctuidae, subfamilies Rivulinae, Phytometrinae, Herminiinae, Hypeninae and Hypenodinae. Malayan Nature J. 60 (1-4) : 1-268. 119, f. 285, pl. 5
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Part 2. Pl. 2/25.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=583370
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/02_EREBIDAE/04_HERMINIINAE/22_Simplicia/Simplicia%20schaldusalis/Simplicia%20schaldusalis.htm
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/881168-Simplicia-schaldusalis
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Simplicia schaldusalis (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/simplicia-schaldusalis, accessed 2025/11/01.