Taxonomic Information
Dichromia Guenée, 1854 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Dichromia cognata (Moore, 1885). Sri Lanka (TL); India: Himachal Pradesh (Kulu).
Dichromia indicatalis (Walker, [1859]). India: Assam, Sikkim, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal, Nilgiris, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
Dichromia laesalis (Walker, [1859]). India: Meghalaya, N. India.
Dichromia occatus (Moore, 1882). Sri Lanka; India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Himachal Pradesh, Kerala.
Dichromia opulenta (Christoph, 1877). Pakistan.
Dichromia orosia Meyrick, 1913. Sri Lanka.
Dichromia pullata Moore, 1885. Sri Lanka (TL); India: Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka .
Dichromia quadralis Walker, [1859]. India: "North Hindustan", Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Andaman & Nicobar Is.
Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius, 1775). India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Sikkim, West Bengal.
Dichromia thermesialis (Walker, 1866). Sri Lanka; India: Meghalaya (Cherrapunji), West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Dichromia triangularis (Moore, 1882). Myanmar; India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Dichromia trigonalis Guenée, 1854. India: Meghalaya, central India, NE India, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Uttarakhand.
Dichromia triplicalis Walker, [1859]. India: South India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Dichromia indicatalis -
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Note: Provisionally identified as Dichromia indicatalis (Walker, [1859]).
Diagnosis (From MOB). The forewing has the postmedial variably oblique and triarcuate, the zone basal to it a richer darker brown, perhaps grading slightly paler in the basal half. The black exterior to the apical lens tends to be more intense and extensive distally when it is strongly developed. The cilia in the basal half of the male antennae are significantly shorter than the width of the flagellomeres.
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| Kerala | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
- Hypena indicatalis Walker, [1859]. List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 16: 61. TL: Sarawak, Borneo. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120189#page/73/mode/1up (female).
- 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. 89, # 2970.
- Bomolocha indicatalis; Seitz, A. (Ed.). Macro Lep. World., Vol 3. Pg. 434, Pl. 73e.
- Hypena cidarioides Moore; Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 261 pp. + 45 pls. Pl. 2/27-28.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. pg. 43, Pl. 5/4.
- Inoue, H., Sugi, S., Kuroko, H., Moriuti, S., Kawabe, A. 1982. Moths of Japan, Vol. 2. Plates and synonymic catalogue. Japan, Kodansha Co. Ltd. 111 pp. Pl. 222/13-20. Image 13/15 males, rest females.
- Roger Kendrick PhD, plate 33/19 as Hypena indicatalis for male & female.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/496479-Hypena-indicatalis
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-17/hypeninae/hypeninae_5_3.php
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Dichromia indicatalis (Walker, [1859]) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Dichromia-indicatalis, accessed 2026/04/03.