Subspecies in India
Erasmia pulchella pulchella Hope, 1841 is the nominate subspecies, found in India, with the type locality as "Assam". Numerous other subspecies exists across Asia.
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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 | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
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| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 |
- Erasmia pulchella Hope, 1841. Trans. linn. Soc. Lond. 18: 446, pl. 31, f. 5; TL: Assam. Text at https://archive.org/details/transactionsofli18183841linn/page/446/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/transactionsofli18183841linn/page/n528/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig.pg. 273, # 585, Fig. 181.
- Seitz, A. (Ed.). 1911. In: Jordan, K. Family Zygaenidae, Burnets. Macro Lep. Vol. 10, pg. 24, pl. 4b. Plate at https://archive.org/details/diegrossschmette10seit_0/page/4/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 65/4.
- Endo & Kishida, 1999. Day Flying Moths, Chalcosiinae. Pg. 41, Image 1-2 as Erasmia pulcherra (error)
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/361720-Erasmia-pulchella
- https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=515322
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Erasmia pulchella Hope, 1841 – . 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/Erasmia-pulchella, accessed 2025/04/23.