Taxonomic Information
Cirrhochrista Lederer, 1863 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Cirrhochrista bifurcalis Hampson, 1919
Cirrhochrista brizoalis (Walker, 1859)
Cirrhochrista bracteolalis Hampson, 1891
Cirrhochrista fumipalpis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
Cirrhochrista fuscusa Chen, Song & Wu, 2006
Cirrhochrista kosemponialis Strand, 1918
Cirrhochrista pulchellalis Lederer, 1863
Cirrhochrista semibrunnea Hampson, 1896
Cirrhochrista spissalis (Guenée, 1854)
Cirrhochrista annulifera Hampson, 1919 is an extralimital species and its status in India needs investigation.
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 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 2 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 8 |
- OD: Margaronia brizoalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 19: 976 at http://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso1921brit#page/976/mode/1up [accessed 01 August 2017]
- Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs. pg 49, #4272.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. pl 142-1.
- Gurule, S & S. M. Nikam. 2013. The moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of northern Maharashtra: a preliminary checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(12): 4693–4713; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2555.4693-713. Image 20.
- Irungbam, J. S., M. S. Chib & K. Wangdi. 2016. Taxonomic review of the superfamily Pyraloidea in Bhutan (Lepidoptera). Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 9 (2016). pp. 355-382 Figure 7, D.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrhochrista_brizoalis
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/brizoalis.html [accessed 01 August 2017]
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=313965
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Cirrhochrista brizoalis (Walker, 1859) – . 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/cirrhochrista-brizoalis, accessed 2025/04/23.