Taxonomic Information
Sarbanissa Walker, 1865 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Sarbanissa albifascia (Walker, 1865). India (TL: “Hindostan”); Myanmar.
Sarbanissa bala (Moore, [1866]). India (TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal), Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal; Myanmar.
Sarbanissa catacoloides (Walker, 1862). India: NE India, Uttarakhand; Nepal; Myanmar.
Sarbanissa insocia Walker, 1865. India (TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal), Arunachal Pradesh, “N. India”; Nepal.
Sarbanissa longipennis (Walker, 1865). Bangladesh (TL: Sylhet); India: Sikkim,.
Sarbanissa discoidalis Sugi, 1998. Nepal (TL).
Sarbanissa nepcha (Moore, 1867). India (TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal).
Sarbanissa poecila (Jordan, 1912). India: Sikkim (TL).
Sarbanissa subalba (Leech, 1890). Nepal; Myanmar.
Sarbanissa subflava (Moore, 1877). Nepal; Myanmar.
Sarbanissa transiens (Walker, 1856). India: NE Himalaya; Nepal; Myanmar.
Sarbanissa tricycla Sugi, 1993. Nepal (TL: Godhavari).
Sarbanissa venosa (Moore, 1879). India (TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Sarbanissa albifascia -
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Sarbanissa albifascia (Walker, 1865): Dillenia indica, Dillenia pentagyna (Dilleniaceae), Leea guineensis (Vitaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Catocala albifascia Walker, 1865. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 33: 933. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso3334brit#page/933/mode/1up
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (Insecta : Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong.Plate 42/32.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 79, Pl. 137: 20.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Pl. 42/14-15.
- Wei, F.H., Kishida, Y. & Wang, M., 2019. A review of the genus Sarbanissa Walker, 1865 in China, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Agaristinae). Zootaxa 4648 (2): 354–370. Fig. 3.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=560870 [accessed 24 November 2019]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204816-Sarbanissa-albifascia
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Sarbanissa albifascia (Walker, 1865) – . 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/sarbanissa-albifascia, accessed 2025/04/23.