Taxonomic Information
Alternate English names: Legume Pod Borer, Mung Bean Moth
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | |||||
| Kerala | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 4 | |||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||||||
| Total | 13 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 16 | 22 | 18 | 29 |
Maruca vitrata Fabricius, 1787 - Maruca Pod-borer: Lablab purpureus, Cajanus cajan (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Phalaena vitrata Fabricius, 1787. Mant. insectorum, 2:215. TL: Tranquiebariae, India.
- pg 393, # 5134 as Maruca testulalis.
- Image no. 5.
- Insect Pests - NBAIR. http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Maruca-vitrata.php [accessed 09 Sep 2016]
- Wikipedia contributors. Maruca vitrata [Internet]. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia; 2015 Apr 29, 09:03 UTC [cited 2015 Oct 7]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maruca_vitrata&oldid=659838049.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Maruca vitrata Fabricius, 1787 – Maruca Pod Borer. 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/maruca-vitrata, accessed 2025/04/24.