Taxonomic Information
Tanaorhinus Butler, 1879 species known from India.
Tanaorhinus celebensis Yazaki, 1995. India: Sikkim.
Tanaorhinus kina Swinhoe, 1893. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Nagaland.
Tanaorhinus rafflesii (Moore, [1860]). India:Arunachal Pradesh (Tawang).
Tanaorhinus reciprocata (Walker, 1861). India: Himalayas: Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh.
Tanaorhinus viridiluteata (Walker, 1861). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Similiar species:
Tanaorhinus rafflesii separated by underside of hindwing. See Holloway, 1998.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
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| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
- , pg 493, # 4066
- pl 4/5.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_13_3.php- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaorhinus_viridiluteatus [accessed 30 June 2016]
- http://taibnet.sinica.edu.tw/chi/taibnet_addpicture3.php?name_code=345308&id=5810 [accessed 30 June 2016]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus (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/tanaorhinus-viridiluteatus, accessed 2025/11/10.