Taxonomic Information
Crocidolomia Zeller, 1852 species known from India.
Crocidolomia luteolalis Hampson, 1893. Sri Lanka.
Crocidolomia pavonana (Fabricius, 1794). India.
Crocidolomia suffusalis (Hampson, 1891). India.
Singh et al (2021) list only Crocidolomia pavonana and Crocidolomia suffusalis from India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Crocidolomia pavonana - Cabbage Cluster Caterpillar
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Males have tuft of hair on forewing in Crocidolomia pavonana and Crocidolomia luteolalis. Crocidolomia suffusalis (Hampson, 1891), the third species from India has a prominent black patch on FW inner margin.
Chen, N. and Wang, S.X., 2013. Review of the genus Crocidolomia Zeller, 1852 from China (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 41(163), pp.357-364. Mentions in a key that pavonana and luteolalis have two discocellular stigma and pavonana is pale yellow while luteolalis is bright ferruginous red.
| 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 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 3 | 14 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- Pyralis pavonana Fabricius, 1794. 275-276. TL: Tamil Nadu, India.
- 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. 372-373 for all three Indian species of Crocidolomia Zeller, 1852.
- Robinson, G.S., K.R.Tuck, M. Shaffer & K. Cook. 1994. The Smaller Moths of South-East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 308 pp., 51 figs., 32 pls. Pl. 29/12.
- Chen, N. and Wang, S.X., 2013. Review of the genus Crocidolomia Zeller, 1852 from China (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 41(163), pp.357-364.
- Singh, N. , R.Ranjan, A. Talukdar, R. Joshi, J. S. Kirti, K. Chandra & R. Mally. 2022. A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 5197 (1): 001–423. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/ever/pavonana.html
- https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/CRAMBIDAE/GLAPHRYIINAE/crocidolomia%20pavonana.htm
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/124587-Crocidolomia-pavonana
Note: Crocidolomia binotalis Zeller, 1852 is a synonym of Crocidolomia pavonana. Singh et al (2021) list only Crocidolomia pavonana and Crocidolomia suffusalis from India.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Crocidolomia pavonana (Fabricius, 1794) – Cabbage Cluster Caterpillar. 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/crocidolomia-pavonana, accessed 2025/04/24.