Taxonomic Information
Purpurata Xue, Lu & Du, 2024 species from the Indian subcontinent.
Purpurata directa Xue, Lu & Du, 2024. India (TL)
Purpurata iopasalis (Walker, 1859). India.
Purpurata obfuscalis Yamanaka, 1998. Nepal; India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Purpurata plagiatalis (Walker, 1859). India: Arunachal Pradesh; Sri Lanka.
Purpurata shompen Singh & Ahmad, 2022. India: Great Nicobar Island.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Purpurata obfuscalis -
Purpurata iopasalis -
Diagnosis based on external morphology (Xue et al, 2024). Best confirmed by comparing genitalia.
Purpurata plagiatalis: Postmedial line of forewing punctiform between M2 and CuA2
Purpurata iopasalis: Postmedial line of forewing dentate or linear between M2 and CuA2. Postmedial line of hindwing punctiform between M2 and CuA2.
Purpurata shompen: Postmedial line of forewing dentate or linear between M2 and CuA2. Postmedial line of hindwing linear between M2 and CuA2.
Purpurata directa: Postmedial line of forewing dentate or linear between M2 and CuA2. Postmedial line of forewing linear between M2 and CuA2.
Purpurata obfuscalis: Postmedial line of forewing dentate between M2 and CuA2. Postmedial line of hindwing dentate between M2 and CuA2.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 3 |
- Botys iopasalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 18: 652; TL: Hindostan. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1618brit/page/652/mode/1up?view=theater
- Botys jopasalis [sic, recte iopasalis]. Moore, 1878, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (4): 850. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen782zool/page/850/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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. 334, # 4971.
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (Insecta : Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong. PhD Plates. Pl. 16/11.
- Xu, D. and Du, X.C., 2016. A new species of Patania from the Hainan Island, China (Lepidoptera, Crambidae). ZooKeys, (614), p.129. Fig. 5.
- Xue X-L, Lu X-Q, & Du X-C . 2024. The new genus Purpurata (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Spilomelinae), with descriptions of two new species from China. ZooKeys 1219: 175–194. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1219.131102
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/554981-Patania-iopasalis
Note: Genus revised from Patania to Purpurata based on Xue et al, 2024 (Rayhan & Sondhi, 25 Jan 2024).
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Purpurata iopasalis (Walker, 1859) – . 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/purpurata-iopasalis, accessed 2025/04/24.