Pingasa rubicunda Warren, 1894 -

Taxonomic Information

Pingasa Moore, [1887] species known from India. 
Pingasa alba Swinhoe, 1891. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Pingasa chlora chlora (Stoll, 1782). India: Indian Himalaya.
Pingasa crenaria (Guenée, 1858). India: Central India.
Pingasa dispensata (Walker, 1860). India: North India, Tamil Nadu.
Pingasa elutriata Prout, 1916. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling). 
Pingasa lariaria (Walker, 1860). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Tripura, Karnataka (?).
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria gracilis Prout, 1916. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria tephrosiaria Guenée, 1858. India: NW Himalaya. 
Pingasa rubicunda Warren, 1894. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Pingasa rufofasciata Moore, 1888. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Pingasa ruginaria ruginaria (Guenée, [1858]). India: North India, S. & W. India.
Pingasa ruginaria andamanica Prout, 1916. India: South Andaman, Port Blair.
Pingasa subviridis Warren, 1896. India: Meghalaya (Cherrapunji), West Bengal.
Pingasa venusta Warren, 1894. India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.

Unconfirmed records
Pingasa multispurcata Prout, 1913. An African species.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Similar species:
Pingasa rubimontana Holloway & Sommerer, 1984. Indonesia (extralimital)
Pingasa tapungkanana (Strand, 1910). Malaysia, Indonesia (extralimital)

Refer to the description of P. rubicunda on Moths of Borneo at https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_9_4.php

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
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
Meghalaya41
Mizoram
Nagaland1
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total1411

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Pingasa rubicunda Warren, 1894 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.80. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Pingasa-rubicunda, accessed 2024/10/16.