Taxonomic Information
Mecodina Guenée, 1852 species known from the Indian subregion.
Mecodina aequilinea Hampson, 1926. India: Assam.
Mecodina agrestis (Swinhoe, 1890) (Bertula). Myanmar.
Mecodina albodentata (Swinhoe, 1895) (Oglasa). India: NE Himalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Karnataka, Kerala; Nepal.
Mecodina analis (Swinhoe, 1890) (Bertula). Myanmar.
Mecodina bisignata (Walker, 1865) (Boethantha). Indian subregion.
Mecodina ceruleosparsa Hampson, 1907. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasis).
Mecodina cineracea (Butler, 1879) (Psimada), NE Himalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, West Bengal.
Mecodina cyanodonta Hampson, 1902. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasis).
Mecodina diastriga Hampson, 1926. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra.
Mecodina lanceola Guenée, 1852. NE Himalaya.
Mecodina metagrapta Hampson, 1926. India.
Mecodina odontophora (Swinhoe, 1895) (Seneratia). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya.
Mecodina placida (Moore, 1882) (Bertula). India: West Bengal
Mecodina subcostalis (Walker, 1865) (Ophiusa). Nepal.
Mecodina praecipua (Walker, 1865) (Thermesia). Indian subregion, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala; Sri Lanka (TL).
Mecodina umbrosa (Hampson, 1893) (Araeognatha). Sri Lanka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Mecodina praecipua -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- Thermesia praecipua Walker, 1865. List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 33: 1056. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/1056/mode/1up?view=theater. Female. TL: Sri Lanka
- Marmorinia ? nara Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874. Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (4): pl. 120, f. 47; TL: Amboina. Plate at https://archive.org/details/umdieerdeindenja03akad/page/n315/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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. 6, # 2717.
- 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. 14/16-17.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/miscellaneous_v/miscellaneousv_8_5.php
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/calp/praecipua.html [accessed 27 May 2021]
- http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Mecodina_Praecipua_En [accessed 27 May 2021]
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=64216 [accessed 27 May 2021]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/322058-Mecodina-praecipua
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Mecodina praecipua (Walker, 1865) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/mecodina-praecipua, accessed 2025/11/05.