Taxonomic Information
Cricula Walker, 1855 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Cricula agria Jordan, 1909. India: Tamil Nadu (Travancore: TL).
Cricula gandhii Naumann & Löffler, 2013. Arunachal Pradesh (Rapum, near Along: TL).
Cricula trifenestrata (Helfer, 1837). India, Nepal, Bhutan.
Cricula trifenestrata andamanica Jordan, 1909. Andaman Is.
Cricula tremula Naumann & Löffler, 2013. Myanmar.
Cricula andrei Jordan, 1909. India: Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh; Bhutan.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
Cricula trifenestrata (Helfer, 1837) – Three-windowed Cricula: Acrocarpus fraxinifolius (Fabaceae), Anacardium occidentale, Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae), Camellia sinensis (Theaceae), Canarium indicum (Buseraceae), Exbucklandia populnea (Hamamelidaceae), Machilus gamblei (Lauraceae),Schleichera trijuga (Sapindaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Jordan, K. 1909. On the Species of Cricula (Saturniidae), Novit. zool. 16 (2) : 300-332. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi16lond/page/302/mode/1up?view=theater
- Tikader, A., Vijayan, K. and Saratchandra, B., 2014. Cricula trifenestrata (Helfer)(Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)-A silk producing wild insect in India. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, pp.22-29. For early stages of Cricula trifenestrata.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Cricula trifenestrata (Helfer, 1837) – Three-windowed Cricula. 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/cricula-trifenestrata, accessed 2025/11/03.