Taxonomic Information
Comostola Meyrick, 1888 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Comostola caerulea Warren, 1893. India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola cedilla Prout, 1917. India: Andaman Is.
Comostola chlorargyra (Walker, 1861). India sub-region.
Comostola dispansa (Walker, 1861). Sri Lanka.
Comostola dyakaria (Walker, 1861). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004. India: Uttarakhand (TL: Bhimtal), Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Comostola hypotyphla Prout, 1917. India: Himachal Pradesh (Dalhousie).
Comostola inops Prout, 1912. India: Kashmir: Lidda Valley, Lidderwat, 6700ft, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola laesaria (Walker, 1861). India; Sri Lanka (TL).
Comostola leucosticta Yazaki, 1993. India: Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal (TL).
Comostola maculata (Moore, 1868). India: West Bengal.
Comostola meritaria (Walker, 1861). India; Sri Lanka (TL).
Comostola multimaculata (Pajni & Walia, 1984). India: Himachal Pradesh (Nauni).
Comostola mundata Warren, 1896. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Comostola ovifera (Warren, 1893). India: Sikkim; Tibet.
Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866). South India.
Comostola quantula (Swinhoe, 1886). India: Maharashtra (Mumbai).
Comostola subtiliaria (Bremer, 1864). Himalayas.
Comostola subtiliaria demeritaria Prout, 1917. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Comostola turgescens (Prout, 1917). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola virago Prout, 1926. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similiar species:
"differs from Comostola pyrrhogona in there being a slight rufous tooth projecting from the costal fascia of fore wing at middle of cell and a long oblique postmedial tooth; a slight tooth from inner margin of forewing near outer angle and from inner margin of hind wing beyond middle." Hampson, 1895.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 |
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae pg. 489, # 4084.
- Warren, W. (1893) On new genera and species of moths of the family Geometridae from India in the collection of H.J. Elwes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London., 1893: 341-433. pg. 354 pl.XXXI fg.1 OD as Comostola caerulea.
- Kirti, J. S., K. Chandra, A. Saxena & N. Singh. 2019. Geometrid Moths of India. 296 pp. Nature Books of India, New Delhi.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Comostola caerulea Warren, 1893 – . 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/comostola-caerulea, accessed 2025/04/23.