Taxonomic Information
Canucha Walker, 1856 species known from India
Canucha specularis (Moore, 1879). India; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Canucha duplexa duplexa (Moore, [1866]). E. Himalaya.
Canucha miranda Warren, 1923. India: Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Tripura | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae, pg 340, # 732 as Drepana specularis.
- Watson, A. 1968. The Taxonomy off the Drepaninae represented in China, with an account of their world distribution (Lepidoptera:Drepanidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Supplement 12. pg.99 plate 11 fig.367
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. pl 101/16.
- Holloway, J. D.
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-8/drepaninae/drepaninae_10_1.php [accessed 22 Nov 2015]
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=161095 [accessed 22 Nov 2015]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Canucha specularis (Moore, 1879) – . 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/canucha-specularis, accessed 2025/10/27.