Taxonomic Information
Crocidolomia Zeller, 1852 species known from India.
Crocidolomia luteolalis Hampson, 1893. Sri Lanka.
Crocidolomia pavonana (Fabricius, 1794). India.
Crocidolomia suffusalis (Hampson, 1891). India.
Singh et al (2021) list only Crocidolomia pavonana and Crocidolomia suffusalis from India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Crocidolomia luteolalis -
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Males have tuft of hair on forewing in Crocidolomia pavonana and Crocidolomia luteolalis. Crocidolomia suffusalis (Hampson, 1891), the third species from India has a prominent black patch on FW inner margin.
Chen, N. and Wang, S.X., 2013. Review of the genus Crocidolomia Zeller, 1852 from China (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 41(163), pp.357-364. Mentions in a key that pavonana and luteolalis have two discocellular stigma and pavonana is pale yellow while luteolalis is bright ferruginous red.
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| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Crocidolomia luteolalis Hampson, 1893: Capparis moonii, Capparis grandiflora (Capparaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Crocidolomia luteolalis Hampson, 1893. Ill. typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln Br. Mus. 9: 168, pl. 173, f. 4, 11. Text at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft09brituoft/page/168/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft09brituoft/page/n226/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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. 372-373 for all three Indian species of Crocidolomia Zeller, 1852.
- Chen, N. and Wang, S.X., 2013. Review of the genus Crocidolomia Zeller, 1852 from China (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 41(163), pp.357-364.
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/ever/luteolalis.html
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=77149
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/784389-Crocidolomia-luteolalis
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Crocidolomia luteolalis Hampson, 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/crocidolomia-luteolalis, accessed 2025/04/23.