Taxonomic Information
Dichromia Guenée, 1854 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Dichromia cognata (Moore, 1885). Sri Lanka (TL); India: Himachal Pradesh (Kulu).
Dichromia indicatalis (Walker, [1859]). India: Assam, Sikkim, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal, Nilgiris, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
Dichromia laesalis (Walker, [1859]). India: Meghalaya, N. India.
Dichromia occatus (Moore, 1882). Sri Lanka; India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Himachal Pradesh.
Dichromia opulenta (Christoph, 1877). Pakistan.
Dichromia orosia Meyrick, 1913. Sri Lanka.
Dichromia pullata Moore, 1885. Sri Lanka (TL); India: Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka .
Dichromia quadralis Walker, [1859]. India: "North Hindustan", Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Andaman & Nicobar Is.
Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius, 1775). India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Sikkim, West Bengal.
Dichromia thermesialis (Walker, 1866). Sri Lanka; India: Meghalaya (Cherrapunji), West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Dichromia triangularis (Moore, 1882). Myanmar; India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Dichromia trigonalis Guenée, 1854. India: Meghalaya, central India, NE India, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Uttarakhand.
Dichromia triplicalis Walker, [1859]. India: South India.
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| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius, 1775): Dregea volubilis, Tylophora asthmatica, Tylophora ovata (Apocynaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Anonymous. 2013. ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources. http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Dichromia-sagitta.php [accessed 25 March 2017]
- Wikipedia contributors. Dichromia sagitta [Internet]. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia; 2017 Jan 18, 22:50 UTC [cited 2017 Mar 25]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dichromia_sagitta&oldid=760761389.
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius, 1775) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/dichromia-sagitta, accessed 2026/04/01.