Taxonomic Information
Saroba Hampson, 1926 species known from India.
Saroba maculicosta (Walker, 1858). Sri Lanka; Myanmar.
“Saroba” ceylonica (Walker, 1865). N. India; Sri Lanka; Myanmar.
Saroba ochreisparsa (Hampson, 1895). Nagaland.
Saroba pustulifera Walker, 1865. India: Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra; Sri Lanka; Bhutan.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Saroba pustulifera -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Kerala | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Saroba pustulifera Walker, 1865. List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 33: 1097.
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg. 22, # 2766 as Capnodes pustulifera.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1. Bangkok, Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand. 261 pp., 45 pls. Pl. 13/14-15.
- Sondhi, Y., S. Sondhi, S. R. Pathour, & K. Kunte. 2018. Moth diversity (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of Shendurney and Ponmudi in Agastyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Kerala, India, with notes on new records. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 28(2). Image 71.
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/saroba/saroba_4_1.php. [accessed 17 September 2019]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Saroba pustulifera 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/saroba-pustulifera, accessed 2025/04/23.