Taxonomic Information
Chorodna Walker, 1860 species known from India.
Chorodna adumbrata Moore, 1888. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Chorodna anepsia (Wehrli, 1941). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Sikkim (Kanchanjunga), Punjab, Himachal Pradesh (Shimla).
Chorodna creataria (Guenée, [1858]). North India, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim; Nepal.
Chorodna erebusaria Walker, 1860. North India.
Chorodna fulgurita (Walker, 1860). India: Uttarakhand, E. Himalaya, NE India.
Chorodna gleba (Swinhoe, 1886). India: Maharashtra ( Pune).
Chorodna livida (Warren, 1893). India: Sikkim.
Chorodna mauraria (Guenée, [1858)]. India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.
Chorodna metaphaeria (Walker, [1863]). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Chorodna moorei (Thierry-Mieg, 1899). E. Himalaya.
Chorodna nigrovittata (Moore, [1868]). India: West Bengal, Sikkim.
Chorodna objectaria (Walker, 1866). North India.
Chorodna obliterata (Moore, 1868). India: West Bengal.
Chorodna pallidularia Moore, [1868]. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Chorodna plumosa (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiri District,
Chorodna praetextata (Felder, 1874).
Chorodna pulverulenta (Hampson, 1895). India: Himachal Pradesh (Dharamsala).
Chorodna reticulata (Hampson, 1895). India: Sikkim, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Chorodna sikkima (Moore, 1888). Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Chorodna similis (Moore, 1888). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Chorodna strixaria (Guenée, [1858]). India: Uttarakhand, E. Himalaya, NE India, Tripura, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu.
Chorodna tephrosiaria (Moore, [1868]). India: West Bengal.
Chorodna testaceata (Moore, [1868[). India: West Bengal.
Chorodna vagans (Moore, 1888). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Chorodna vulpinaria Moore, 1868. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Chorodna quadrinotata (Warren, 1893) is a junior synonym of Chorodna similis (Moore, 1888).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 |
- Chorodna vulpinaria Moore, [1868]. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. p. 614. TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90421#page/24/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 243, # 3347.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 32, pl. 10/3.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=282309 [accessed 02 April 2021]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Chorodna vulpinaria Moore, [1868] – . 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/chorodna-vulpinaria, accessed 2025/10/25.