Glyphodes pyloalis complex Walker, 1859 -

Taxonomic Information

Glyphodes Guenée, 1854 species known from the Indian subcontinent. 
Glyphodes actorionalis Walker, 1859. India. 
Glyphodes badialis (Walker, 1859). India: Arunachal Pradesh. Provisionally identified. 
Glyphodes bicolor (Swainson, 1821). India.
Glyphodes bivitralis Guenée, 1854. India.
Glyphodes caesalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India: Mainland India, Andamans.
Glyphodes callizona (Meyrick, 1894). Myanmar.
Glyphodes canthusalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; India: Mainland India, Andaman Islands.
Glyphodes chilka Moore, 1888. India: Bengal.
Glyphodes crithealis (Walker, 1859). India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal. 
Glyphodes cupripennalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes dysallactalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar.
Glyphodes ernalis Swinhoe, 1894. India.
Glyphodes lacustralis Moore, 1867. India: West Bengal, Meghalaya. 
Glyphodes microta Meyrick, 1890. Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes minimalis Hampson, 1896. S. India; Sri Lanka.
Glyphodes negatalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka; India.
Glyphodes naralis Felder, Felder & Rogenhofer, [1875]. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal. 
Glyphodes nilgirica Hampson, 1896. India: Nilgiris.
Glyphodes orbiferalis Hampson, 1896. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Nagaland; Myanmar.
Glyphodes prothymalis Swinhoe, 1892. India: Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
Glyphodes pulverulentalis Hampson, 1896. Myanmar; India: Assam.
Glyphodes proximalis Snellen, 1899. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Glyphodes pyloalis Walker, 1859. Sri Lanka; Myanmar; India.
Glyphodes stolalis Guenée, 1854. India. 
Glyphodes vertumnalis (Guenée, 1854). India.
Glyphodes westermani Snellen, 1877. Bhutan.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Glyphodes pyloalis complex -


Glyphodes harutai Yamanaka, 1998. Pyralidae of Nepal (II). In: Moths of Nepal Part 5, TINEA. Pg. 108, pl. 142/15.
Expanse 21-23mm. Very similar to G. duplicalis Inoue, Munroe & Mutuura, 1981, Tinea 11: 91, figs 1-2, 5, 7, described from Japan in colour and maculation, but ground colour of upperside of both wings more or less strongly tinged with buff; orbicular spot a little smaller; subterminal and terminal band of hindwing a little narrower.
Male & female genitalia (Figs 892, 895). Very similar to G. pyloalis Walker, 1859 described from north China rather than to G. duplicalis, but different from those of the former as follows. In male apico-dorsal portion of the uncus more weakly dilated (Fig. 893). In female collar of ductus bursae a little shorter and more or less strongly sclerotized.

(Notes by Sondhi, S.)

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh121
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total121
  1. OD: Glyphodes pyloalis Walker, 1859. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 19: 973. TL: N. China. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1921brit/page/973/mode/1up?view=theater
  2. Glyphodes sylpharis Butler, 1878. Ill. typical Spec. Lepid. Het. Colln Br. Mus. 2: 57, pl. 39, f. 2. TL: Yokohoma. Text at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft02brit/page/57/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft02brit/page/n114/mode/1up?view=theater
  3. 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. 357. Text at  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124944#page/357/mode/1up
  4. Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Plate 2/34.
  5. http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5197 [Accessed 9 July 2023]
  6. https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Glyphodes-pyloalis [Accessed 9 July 2023]
  7. https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=273239 [Accessed 9 July 2023]
  8. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/154624-Glyphodes-pyloalis [Accessed 9 July 2023]

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Glyphodes pyloalis complex Walker, 1859 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.80. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/glyphodes-pyloalis-complex, accessed 2024/10/16.