Taxonomic Information
Traminda Saalmüller, 1891 species known from India.
Traminda aventiaria (Guenée, [1858]). Indian subcontinent.
Traminda mundissima (Walker, 1861). Indian subcontinent.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similiar species: Traminda aventiaria has the forewing termen scalloped just below the apex.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 4 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Haryana | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 9 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 20 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 3 |
Traminda mundissima (Walker, 1861): Acacia polycantha, Acacia nilotica, Pithecellobium dulce (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Gurule, S & S. M. Nikam. 2013. The moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of northern Maharashtra: a preliminary checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(12): 4693–4713; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2555.4693-713 Image 101.
- Sihvonen, P., Murillo‐Ramos, L., Brehm, G., Staude, H. and Wahlberg, N., 2020. Molecular phylogeny of Sterrhinae moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): towards a global classification. Systematic Entomology, 45(3), pp.606-634.
- Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Image 12.
- Wikispecies contributors. Cosymbiini [Internet]. Wikispecies, ; 2010 Sep 6, 17:24 UTC [cited 2015 Dec 22]. Available from: https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cosymbiini&oldid=996450.
Note: Tribal position updated from Cosymbiini to Rhodometrini based on Sihvonen et al. (2020).
Other Notes
Adults have brown and green forms.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Traminda mundissima (Walker, 1861) – . 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/traminda-mundissima, accessed 2025/11/10.


