Tridrepana adelpha Swinhoe, 1905 -

Taxonomic Information

Tridrepana Swinhoe, 1895 species known from India.
Tridrepana acuta Watson, 1957, India: South India; Sri Lanka.
Tridrepana adelpha Swinhoe, 1905. India: NE India, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal.
Tridrepana albonotata albonotata (Moore, 1879) (Drepana). India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal, Tripura, Uttarakhand.
Tridrepana albonotata pervasata (Warren, 1922) (Iridrepana), India: Kerala, South India.
Tridrepana flava Moore, 1879, India: Sikkim, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, NE Himalaya.
Tridrepana fulva (Hampson, 1892) (Drepana). India: Sikkim; Nepal.
Tridrepana fulvata brevis (Watson, 1957) (Tridrepana). India: Assam, Meghalaya; Myanmar.
Tridrepana postica (Moore, 1879) (Drepana). India: NE India, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland.
Tridrepana rubromarginata indica Watson, 1957. India: Sikkim; Bhutan; Nepal.
Tridrepana sadana (Moore, 1865) (Drepana). India: North India, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya; Nepal.
Tridrepana septempunctata septempunctata Warren, 1896. India: Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh2
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim1
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal1
Total112
  1. OD: Tridrepana adelpha Swinhoe, 1905. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 (16): 620. 
  2. Watson, A. 1957. A Revision of the Genus Tridrepana Swinhoe (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae) Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 4 (9) : 407-500, 155fgs, pl. 2-3.
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 2, Pl. 1/16. 
  4. Song, W., D. Xue & H. Han. 2011. A taxonomic revision of Tridrepana Swinhoe, 1895 in China, with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae). Zootaxa 3021: 39–6.
  5. http://www2.nrm.se/en/lep_nrm/a/tridrepana_adelphamatronalis.html [accessed 23 October 2019]

 

 

 

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Tridrepana adelpha Swinhoe, 1905 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/index.php/tridrepana-adelpha, accessed 2025/08/24.