Taxonomic Information
Rhimphalea Lederer, 1863 species known from India.
Rhimphalea ochalis (Walker, 1859)
Rhimphalea trogusalis (Walker, 1859)
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Rhimphalea trogusalis has a larger eye-spot comprising a complete black disc, with central white spot, whereas in ochalis it is incomplete. Rhimphalea trogusalis has a more yellowish ground colour and a broader dark brown stripe close to termen of the forewing (Robinson et al 1994).
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
- OD: Botys trogusalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 18: 711. Text at http://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso1618brit#page/711/mode/1up
- Botys megalopsalis Walker, [1866]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 34: 1428. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso3334brit#page/1428/mode/1up
- 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. 278, # 4821, Fig. 168.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/50_PYRALOIDEA/Crambidae/63.9_Pyraustinae/Rhimphalea/framepage_Rhimphalea.html
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 51.23.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Rhimphalea trogusalis (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/rhimphalea-trogusalis, accessed 2025/04/23.