Taxonomic Information
Parapoynx Hübner, [1825] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Parapoynx affinialis Guenée, 1854. India.
Parapoynx andreusialis (Hampson, 1912). Nilgiris.
Parapoynx bilinealis (Snellen, 1876). Punjab
Parapoynx crisonalis (Walker, 1859). India; Sri Lanka.
Parapoynx diminutalis Snellen, 1880. India.
Parapoynx fluctuosalis (Zeller, 1852). India.
Parapoynx fusalis (Hampson, 1896). Naga Hills.
Parapoynx fuscicostalis (Hampson, 1896). West Bengal.
Parapoynx gangeticalis Lederer, 1863. India?
Parapoynx leucostola (Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Parapoynx stagnalis (Zeller, 1852). India.
Parapoynx votalis (Walker, 1859). West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra; Sri Lanka.
Parapoynx villidalis (Walker, 1859). India; Sri Lanka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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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 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 3 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Total | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Parapoynx affinialis Guenée, 1854: Polyphagous (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Paraponyx [sic] affinialis Guenée, 1854. Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 8: 270; TL: Inde centrale
- 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 193,#4637 & 4638.
- http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Parapoynx_Affinialis
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Parapoynx affinialis Guenée, 1854 – . 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/parapoynx-affinialis, accessed 2025/04/23.