Taxonomic Information
Cechenena Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 species known from India.
Cechenena aegrota (Butler, 1875). India: Sikkim (Kitching and Haxaire, 2003), Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya.
Cechenena helops (Walker, 1856). Nepal (Irungbam and Irungbam 2019); North Eastern India; Meghalaya.
Cechenena mirabilis Butler, 1875. India: Nagaland, Sikkim, (Rafi et al., 2014), Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir (Ganai et al., 2020).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
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| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
- OD: Pergesa aegrota Butler, 1875. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875: 246 at http://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen75zool#page/246/mode/1up
- Inoue, H., R.D. Kennett & I.J. Kitching. 1997. Moths of Thailand, Volume 2: Sphingidae. Pl 37/171.
- http://sphingidae.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/634 [accessed 01 November 2017]
- http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/c_aeg.htm
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-3/sphingidae/sphingidae_33_3.php [accessed 01 November 2017]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cechenena_aegrota
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Cechenena aegrota (Butler, 1875) – Mottled Green Hawkmoth. 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/index.php/cechenena-aegrota, accessed 2025/11/09.


