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Lepidoptera > Geometroidea > Geometridae > Geometrinae > Geometrini > Tanaorhinus

Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus (Walker, 1861)

Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus

Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus
Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus
Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus
Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus
Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus
Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus
Indian and global distribution:
records (based on images):
Identification:
Sexual, seasonal & individual variation:
Status, Habitat and Habits:
Adult moth observations that have been databased:
StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Nagaland
Sikkim
All states
Similiar species:
Tanaorhinus rafflesii separated by underside of hindwing. See Holloway, 1998.

List of Tanaorhinus known from India based on Kirti et al. (2019).
Tanaorhinus celebensis Yazaki, 1995. India: Sikkim.
Tanaorhinus kina kina Swinhoe, 1893. India: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
Tanaorhinus kina embrithes Prout, 1934. India: Sikkim, Gopaldhara.
Tanaorhinus rafflesii (Moore, [1860]). India: Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.
Tanaorhinus reciprocata (Walker, 1861). India: Himalayas.
Tanaorhinus viridiluteata (Walker, 1861). India: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
References:
  1. Hampson, G. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae, pg 493, # 4066
  2. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo pl 4/5.
  3. Holloway, J. D. 1998. The Moths of Borneo. Part 9. Geometridae: Oenochrominae, Desmobathrinae, Geometrinae.
    http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_13_3.php
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaorhinus_viridiluteatus [accessed 30 June 2016]
  5. TaiBNET. Catologue of Life in Taiwan. http://taibnet.sinica.edu.tw/chi/taibnet_addpicture3.php?name_code=345308&id=5810 [accessed 30 June 2016]

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Anonymous. 2022. Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus (Walker, 1861). In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Moths of India, v. 3.30. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. http://www.mothsofindia.org/sp/355696/Tanaorhinus-viridiluteatus
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