Taxonomic Information
List of Etanna Walker, 1862 species known from India.
Etanna albisecta (Hampson, 1905) (Nanaguna). India (Meghalaya, Nagaland, Indian Subregion); Sri Lanka.
Etanna albonotata (Hampson, 1894) (Cletthara). India (Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, N.E. Himalaya); Nepal.
Etanna basalis Walker, 1862. India; Sri Lanka.
Etanna binotata (Hampson, 1912) (Apothripa). India (Mizoram, Meghalaya, N.E. Himalaya); Sri Lanka.
Etanna breviuscula (Walker, 1863) (Nanaguna). India (Bihar, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nilgiris, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu); Sri Lanka; Nepal.
Etanna brunnea (Hampson, 1905) (Nanaguna). India (Meghalaya); Indo-Australian tropics
Etanna iphida (Swinhoe, 1901) (Clettharra). India (Meghalaya).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Etanna albisecta -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Total | 1 |
Etanna albisecta (Hampson, 1905): Buchanania sp. (Anacardiaceae) (Holloway 2003).
- OD : Nanaguna albisecta Hampson, 1905. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology, (7) 16 (96): 583. TL: (Khasi Hills, Meghalaya; Sri Lanka).Text at https://archive.org/details/s7annalsmagazine16londuoft/page/583/mode/1up?view=theater
- Cletthara basalis Moore, F. 1884-7. The Lepidoptera of Ceylon, Vol 3. pg 105. Text at https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraofcey03moor/page/105/mode/1up?view=theater. (= female of albisecta).
- 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. Pl. 25/54-56.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=573899
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-18/sarrothripini/sarrothripini_1_6.php
- https://www.papua-insects.nl/insect%20orders/Lepidoptera/Nolidae/Chloephorinae/Sarrothripini/Etanna/Etanna%20albisecta.htm
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/355736-Etanna-albisecta
Other Notes
Sexually dimorphic, similar spp. (female) – Etanna basalis, Etanna vittalis (extralimital).
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Etanna albisecta (Hampson, 1905) – . 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/etanna-albisecta, accessed 2024/10/13.