Taxonomic Information
List of Eressa Walker, 1854 known from India.
Eressa affinis Moore, 1877. India (Andamans, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Nagaland).
Eressa aperiens (Walker, 1864). India (Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris), Meghalaya).
Eressa buddha Zerny, 1931. India (Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris), Assam).
Eressa confinis (Walker, 1854). India (NW Himalayas, Assam, Sikkim, West Bengal, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, South India, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Bihar, Maharashtra, Tripura).
Eressa discinota (Moore, 1879). India (Meghalaya).
Eressa ichneumoniformis Rothschild, 1910. India (Meghalaya).
Eressa lepcha (Moore, 1879). India (Sikkim, West Bengal).
Eressa multigutta (Walker, 1854). India: NE Himalaya; Nepal.
Eressa nigra (Hampson, 1892), India (Himachal Pradesh).
Eressa simplex Rothschild, 1910. India (Himachal Pradesh).
Eressa vespa Hampson, 1898. India; Myanmar.
Eressa vespoides Rothschild, 1910. India (Meghalaya).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | |||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
- OD: Syntomis aperiens Walker, [1865]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 31: 68; TL: Nilgiris. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3132brit/page/68/mode/1up?view=theater
- Trianeura moorei Butler, 1876. J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 12 (60-62): 354; TL: Bombay. Text at https://archive.org/details/journaloflinnean121876linn/page/354/mode/1up?view=theater
- Eressa aperiens Walker; Hampson, G.F. 1898. Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 1: 119. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid01brituoft/page/119/mode/1up?view=theater
- Syntomis lydia Swinhoe, 1891. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 (1): 134, pl. 8, f. 7; TL: Nilgiris. Text at
- Kirti, J. S & Singh, N. 2008. External male genitalic structures of a moth Eressa aperiens (Lepidoptera : Arctiidae). Bionotes, 10(1): 23-24. Fig 1.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2016. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 2. Nature Books of India, New Delhi, 214 pp.pg. 178.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1096050-Eressa-aperiens
Notes: Female has ocherous anal tuft. Separated from Syntomoides imaon, as this species lacks white tips to the antennae. Also, the anal tuft is quite different from that in S. imaon. And S. imaon has two yellow bands on the abdomen, while aperiens has just one basal segment as orange.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Eressa aperiens (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/eressa-aperiens, accessed 2025/04/24.