Taxonomic Information
Trachea Ochsenheimer, 1816 species known from India and Nepal.
Trachea albinota (Moore, 1867). India: “Bengal” (TL).
Trachea aurigera (Walker, 1858). India: West Bengal, Sikkim, Uttarakhand; Nepal.
Trachea auriplena (Walker, 1857) India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, “N. India”; Sri Lanka (TL), Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan.
Trachea belastigma Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998. Nepal.
Trachea denticulosa (Moore, 1882). India: NE Himalaya, West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim; Bangladesh; Myanmar.
Trachea erikvannieukerkeni Ronkay, Ronkay & Kovács, 2022. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Trachea guttata (Warren, 1913). India: Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal; Bhutan.
Trachea tibetensis (Warren, 1912). Nepal.
Trachea microspila Hampson, 1908. India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Dharamshala), Uttarakhand; Nepal.
Trachea melanospila Kollar, [1844]. India: Uttarakhand (TL: Mussoorie), Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland ; Sri Lanka.
Trachea olivacea (Moore, 1881). N. India; Nepal.
Trachea viola (Berio, 1973). Myanmar.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg 214, # 1732 as Euplexia melanospila.
- http://beta.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=517334 [accessed 17 December 2018]
- http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/124887-Trachea-auriplena [accessed 17 December 2018]
- http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/479249
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Trachea auriplena (Walker, 1857) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/trachea-auriplena, accessed 2026/01/31.