Numenes flagrans Tams, 1928 -

Taxonomic Information

List of Numenes Walker, 1855 species known from India.
Numenes flagrans Tams, 1928. India: Assam, Nagaland.
Numenes siletti Walker, 1855. Nepal; India: NE India.
Numenes grisa Chao, 1983. India: Mizoram. 

Numenes patrana Moore, 1859 is transferred to Pida patrana (Moore, 1859) based on Wang et al (2015). 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Numenes flagrans -


StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland1
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total1
  1. Numenes flagrans Tams, 1928. New species of lepidoptera heterocera in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 1 (5) : 624-633. TL: Assam. 
  2. Kishida, Y. (Ed.). 2020. Moths of Laos, Part 1, TINEA Vol. 25, (Supplement 2), pp. 1-224, 94 pls. Pg. 118, Pl. 54, Fig. 5. 
  3. Sankararaman, H. & A. Vaidya. 2023. Notes on genus Numenes Walker (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) with new country record for N. grisa Chao and rediscovery of N. flagrans Tams from India. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-023-01098-0

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Numenes flagrans Tams, 1928 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Numenes-flagrans, accessed 2024/10/05.