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Pericyma umbrina (Guenée, 1852)
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- Early stages
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- Larval Host Plants
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Pericyma umbrina
Early Stages:
Indian and global distribution:
records (based on images):
Larval Host Plants:
Pericyma umbrina (Guenée, 1852) - Acacia catechu, Acacia lenticularis, Acacia polyacantha (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010). Reared by Rachit Singh on Acacia catechu (Sondhi et al. 2020).
Identification:
Sexual, seasonal & individual variation:
Status, Habitat and Habits:
Adult moth observations that have been databased:
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| Andhra Pradesh | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | ||||||||||||
| Delhi | ||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | ||||||||||||
| All states |
Similiar species:
Pericyma Herrich-Schäffer, [1851] species from India. Most of the species display polymorphism.
Pericyma albidens (Walker, 1865) (Moepa). S. India.
Pericyma cruegeri (Butler, 1886) (Homoptera). India.
Pericyma detersa (Walker, 1865) (Homoptera). N India.
Pericyma glaucinans (Guenée, 1852) (Alamis). India, Bangladesh.
Pericyma umbrina (Guenée, 1852) (Alamis). India.
References:
- OD: Guenée, 1852. Alamis umbrina Noct. 3:4.
- http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/EREBIDAE/EREBINAE/pericyma%20umbrina.htm. [accessed 16 July 2019]
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg. 474, # 2443 as Homoptera umbrina.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 46/22.
- Pericyma umbrina. Gardner, 1947. Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London. 98: 75. Larval description.
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Cite this page along with its URL as:
Singh, R. 2022. Pericyma umbrina (Guenée, 1852). In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Moths of India, v. 3.30. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. http://www.mothsofindia.org/sp/356783/Pericyma-umbrina
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