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
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Simplicia spp. Guenée, 1854 – . 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/simplicia-spp, accessed 2025/01/22.