Calesia dasypterus Kollar, 1844 -

Taxonomic Information

Calesia Guenée, 1852 species known from India. 
Calesia dasypterus Kollar, 1844. Himalaya. 
Calesia fuscicorpus Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris.
Calesia haemorrhoa Guenée, 1852. N. &. C. India; Nepal. 
Calesia flabellifera Moore, 1878. Myanmar.
Calesia phaiosoma (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris. 
Calesia proxantha Hampson, 1895. Myanmar.
Calesia rhodotela Hampson, 1926. India: Maharashtra; Myanmar.
Calesia roseiceps Hampson, 1894. India: Sikkim.
Calesia rufipalpis (Walker, 1858). India: Karnataka; Sri Lanka.
Calesia stillifera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874. S. &. W. India; Sri Lanka. 
Calesia thermantis Hampson, 1926. Sri Lanka.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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Meghalaya21
Mizoram1
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  1. Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs, pg 580 #2699
  2. Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae, pg 34, pl 8.
  3. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=560877 [Accessed 31 August 2021]
  4. https://taieol.tw/pages/103462 [Accessed 31 August 2021]

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Calesia dasypterus Kollar, 1844 – . 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/calesia-dasypterus, accessed 2025/04/23.