Taxonomic Information
Herpetogramma Lederer, 1863 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Herpetogramma basalis (Walker, [1866]). Sri Lanka; India.
Herpetogramma bipunctalis (Fabricius, 1794). India: Himalayas, NE India, peninsular India, Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Herpetogramma coptobasalis (Hampson, 1899). Bhutan.
Herpetogramma cynaralis (Walker, 1859). India; Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma dilatatipes (Walker, 1866). India: Meghalaya, Karnataka.
Herpetogramma latifuscalis (Hampson, 1899). Bhutan.
Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859). India.
Herpetogramma luctuosalis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Herpetogramma magna Butler, 1879. India: Kerala.
Herpetogramma mellealis (Swinhoe, 1890). Myanmar.
Herpetogramma mutualis (Zeller, 1852). India: Andaman Is.
Herpetogramma nigricornalis (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Assam, Meghalaya.
Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Herpetogramma platycapna (Meyrick, 1897). India: Andaman Is.
Herpetogramma rudis (Warren, 1892). India.
Herpetogramma subalbescens (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Meghalaya.
Herpetogramma stultalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka.
Herpetogramma viraktamathi Shankaramurthy & Nagaraj, 2025. India: Karnataka (TL: Kolar, Rajakallahalli).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Herpetogramma rudis species-group -
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
Herpetogramma rudis (Warren, 1892)
- Acharana rudis Warren, 1892. Descriptions of new genera and species of Pyralidae contained in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (ser. 6) 9: 435. TL: Japan. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19268671#page/483/mode/1up
- Lu X-Q., Wan J-P. & X-C Du. 2019. Three new species of Herpetogramma Lederer (Lepidoptera, Crambidae) from China. ZooKeys 865: 67-85. Fig. 5 & 6.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/539064-Herpetogramma-rudis
Herpetogramma stultalis (Walker, 1859)
- Botys stultalis Walker, 1859. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 18: 669. TL: Ceylon. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120189#page/699/mode/1up
- FBI, Hampson, Vol. 4, pg. 405, # 5162 as Pachyzancla stultalis.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/632584-Herpetogramma-stultalis
Note: Herpetogramma rudis group: Herpetogramma rudis (Warren, 1892), Herpetogramma stultalis (Walker, 1859) and Herpetogramma bipunctalis (Fabricius, 1794), are very difficult to separate reliably from images and are best separated by examining genitalia.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Herpetogramma rudis species-group (Warren, 1892) – . 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/Herpetogramma-rudis%20species-group, accessed 2025/04/24.