Taxonomic Information
Xenotrachea Sugi, 1958 species known from India and Nepal.
Xenotrachea albidisca (Moore, 1867). India: West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Xenotrachea atra Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998. Nepal.
Xenotrachea aurantiaca (Hampson, 1894). India: Sikkim; Nepal.
Xenotrachea auroviridis (Moore, 1867). India: West Bengal; Nepal.
Xenotrachea chrysochlora (Hampson, 1908). India: Himachal Pradesh, Punjab; Nepal.
Xenotrachea disseminata (Hreblay & Plante, 1995). Nepal.
Xenotrachea irrorata Yoshimoto, 1992. Nepal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Xenotrachea albidisca -
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Similar species:
Xenotrachea chrysochlora MON Part 1, Pl. 15/26.
Numerous other Xenotrachea species but none with as extensive white on disc.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
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| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Hadena albidisca Moore, 1867. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.,pg.59, pl. 6/17. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofzoo1867zool/page/59/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofzoo1867zool/page/n1132/mode/1up?view=theater
- Dianthaecia nivescens Butler, 1889. Ill. typical Specimens Lep. Het. Colln Br. Mus., 7: 58.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 15/25.
- 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. Bangkok, Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand. 625 pp., 55 pls.Pl. 46/11-12.
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 145.24.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-12/amphipyrinae/amphipyrinae_7_1.php
Note: Extent of white on disc varies; mentioned in MOB as well. The plates in MOT, Vol. 3, Part 2 show more white than the plate in MON. [Sondhi, S.]
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Xenotrachea albidisca (Moore, 1867) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Xenotrachea-albidisca, accessed 2024/04/25.