Taxonomic Information
Phazaca Walker, 1863 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Phazaca erosioides Walker, 1863. Indo-Australian tropics.
Phazaca theclata (Guenée, 1857). India: Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Kerala; Nepal; Myanmar; Sri Lanka.
Phazaca leucocera (Hampson, 1891). India: Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka.
Phazaca multistrigaria (Moore, 1888). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Uttarakhand.
Phazaca unicauda (Hampson). India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Phazaca theclata - Cotton Leaf Roller
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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 | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Phazaca theclata (Guenée, 1857) – Cotton Leaf Roller: Haldina cordifolia, Catunaregam spinosa, (Rubiaceae), Tectona grandis (Lamiaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/URANIIDAE/EPILEMINAE/dirades%20theclata.htm as Dirades theclata [accessed 20 October 2016]
- , pg 132, # 3065 as Dirades theclata.
Pl 138/17, 18.- inaturalist.org http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/470645-Phazaca-theclata [accessed 20 October 2016]
- Sohn, Jae-Cheon & Yen, Shen-Horn (2005): A Taxonomic Revision of the Korean Epipleminae (Lepidoptera: Uraniidae), with Phylogenetic Comments on the Involved Genera. Zoological Studies 44(1): 44–70. PDF fulltext Fig 1-N.
- Wikipedia contributors. Phazaca theclata [Internet]. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia; 2016 Sep 3, 15:07 UTC [cited 2016 Sep 3]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phazaca_theclata&oldid=737547892.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Phazaca theclata (Guenée, 1857) – Cotton Leaf Roller. 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/phazaca-theclata, accessed 2025/04/23.