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
Tridrepana postica -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Total | 1 |
- Drepana postica Moore, 1879. Descr. Lep. Atk. Pg. 84, Pl 2, fig. 8. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26805#page/102/mode/1up. Plate at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26805#page/327/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig. Pg. 341 as Drepana xanthoptera.
- Drepana postica Dudgeon, 1899. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 12: 653.
- Tridrepana postica in Watson, 1957. A revision of the genus Tridrepana Swinhoe (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae). Bull.Br.Mus.nat.Hist.(Ent.),4:472.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Tridrepana postica (Moore, 1879) – . 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-postica, accessed 2025/08/23.