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
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 |
- OD: Tridrepana adelpha Swinhoe, 1905. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 (16): 620.
- 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.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 2, Pl. 1/16.
- 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.
- 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. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/index.php/tridrepana-adelpha, accessed 2025/11/11.




