Taxonomic Information
Hyblaea Fabricius, 1793 species known from India.
Hyblaea constellata Guenée, 1852. Indian subcontinent.
Hyblaea hypocyanea Swinhoe, 1895. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Hyblaea firmamentum Guenée, 1852. India: Sikkim, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills). Indian subcontinent.
Hyblaea puera (Cramer, 1777). Indian subcontinent.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Kerala | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
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| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 17 | ||||||||||
| Total | 4 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 1 |
Hyblaea puera (Cramer, 1777) – Teak Defoliator: Avicennia marina (Acanthaceae), Avicennia officinalis (Acanthaceae), Tectona grandis, Callicarpa arborea, Callicarpa macrophylla, Premna serratifolia, Premna mollissima, Premna tomentosa, Symphorema involucratum, Vitex canescens, Vitex altissima, Vitex glabrata, Vitex negundo, Vitex peduncularis, Vitex pinnata, Vitex trifolia, Vitex megapotamica? (Lamiaceae), Engelhardia spicata (Juglandaceae), Catalpa ovata, Markhamia stipulata, Fernandoa adenophylla, Heterophragma quadriloculare, Millingtonia hortensis, Oroxylum indicum, Stereospermum neuranthum, Stereospermum tetragonum, Heterophragma sulfureum ?, Kigelia africana?, Markhamia lutea?, Handroanthus chrysanthus?, Spathodea campanulata, Stereospermum chelonoides, Bignonia spp. (Bignoniaceae), Megathyrsus maximus (Poaceae), Rhizophora apiculata, Carallia brachiata, Rhizophora mucronata, Bruguiera cylindrica (Rhizophoraceae), Heptapleurum venulosum (Araliaceae), Schrebera swietenioides (Oleaceae), Terminalia chebula (Combretaceae), Eugenia myrobalana (Myrtaceae)? (Robinson et al. 2010)
- OD: Papilio puera Cramer, 1777. Pap. Exotica. Pl. 103/D & E.
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. pg 371, # 2204.
- Herbison-Evans, D. & S. Crossley. Caterpillars (and Butterflies and Moths) of Australia. http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/hybl/puera.html [accessed 21 March 2017]
- Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P. D. N. 2007. BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (website). http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=34259 [accessed 21 March 2017]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Hyblaea puera complex (Cramer, 1777) – Teak Defoliator. 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/hyblaea-puera-complex, accessed 2025/04/23.