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, Kerala.
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.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Goa | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Maharashtra | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
- OD: Dichromia pullata Moore, [1885]. Lepid. Ceylon 3 (2): 221, pl. 176, f. 4; TL: Ceylon. Text at https://archive.org/stream/lepidopteraofcey03moor#page/221/mode/1up. Plate at https://archive.org/stream/lepidopteraofcey03moor#page/n666/mode/1up.
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg. 73, # 2910.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/708073-Dichromia-pullata
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Dichromia pullata Moore, [1885] – . 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-pullata, accessed 2026/04/04.















