Aethaloessa calidalis (Guenée, 1854) -

Taxonomic Information

Aethaloessa Lederer, 1863 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Aethaloessa calidalis (Guenée, 1854). Indian: North Hindostan, Coromandel, Darjeeling, West Bengal, North India, throughout India, Uttarakhand, Nagaland, Kerala, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi.
Aethaloessa floridalis (Zeller, 1852). Throughout India.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh1
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala11
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra1
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland1
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim1
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand111
West Bengal1121
Total111112611
  1. Glyphodes calidalis Guenée, 1854. Delt. & Pyr. pg. 294. TL: Coromandel Coast. 
  2. Syngamia octavialis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 17: 334. TL: N. India, Sumatra. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1618brit/page/334/mode/1up?view=theater
  3. Syngamia tiphalis Walker, 1859. Cat. Lep. 17:335. TL: Celebes. 
  4. Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs.
  5. Whalley P. E. S. 1961. A revision of two species complexes in the Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae). 1. Cotachena histricalis Walker 2. Syngamia floridalis Zeller. - Bulletin of the British Museum of natural History (Entomology) 10(3):97–111, pls 3–4.
  6. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 125/6. 
  7. Mathew, G. 2006. An Inventory of Indian Pyralids ( Lepidoptera : Pyralidae ).  Zoos' Print Journal 21(5): 2245-2258. DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.ZPJ.667.2245-58.
  8. http://www.pyralidsofborneo.org/index.php?aethaloessa-lederer
  9. http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/calidalis.html

Note: Aethaloessa floridalis (Zeller, 1852), an extralimital species from Africa, is more yellow than orange. This species is reported from India by Hampson (1896) and Mathew (2006). However,  Whalley, (1961), who studied both species, clearly states that this species is known from the African region only; hence this treatment is retained here.

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Aethaloessa calidalis (Guenée, 1854) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://mothsofindia.org/aethaloessa-calidalis, accessed 2025/04/24.