Tarsolepis rufobrunnea Rothschild, 1917 -

Taxonomic Information

List of Tarsolepis Butler, 1872 species known from India. 
Tarsolepis remicauda remicauda Butler, 1872. India: Uttarakhand, Sikkim. 
Tarsolepis japonica Wileman & South, 1917. India: Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh; Myanmar. 
Tarsolepis malayana Nakamura, 1976. India: Assam; Myanmar. 
Tarsolepis rufobrunnea Rothschild, 1917. India: Uttarakhand, Assam, Kerala. 
Tarsolepis fulgurifera (Walker, 1858). India: Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh; Myanmar; Nepal.

Note: Status of Tarsolepis sommeri (Hübner, [1821]) in India is unclear. Not listed in the Indian Notodontidae catalogue.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Tarsolepis rufobrunnea -


Similar species:
Tarsolepis sommeri (Hübner, [1821])
Separating sommeri and rufobrunnea vide Moths of Borneo.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-4/tarsolepis/notodontidae_1_1.php
 

Diagnosis. The only possible species with which this could be confused is its congener rufobrunnea (see below). In sommeri the external silver triangle of the forewing is separated from the grey marginal zone by a dark brown crescent within its width rather than by a long, lenticular, ochreous yellow band. The hindwings above are paler brown basally, the veins picked out darker, the margin slightly rounded, crenulate, whereas in rufobrunnea the wing is uniform dark brown, the margin more or less straight. The ground colour below is fawn rather than pinkish. The female antennae are filiform rather than weakly pectinate. The third joint of the palp is long rather than short. The uncus of the male genitalia is bifurcate rather than entire. A tuft of red hair scales occurs ventrally at the base of the abdomen.

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala1
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total1
  1. OD: Tarsolepis rufobrunnea Rothschild, 1917; Novit. Zool. 24: 252; TL: Assam, Travancore. https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi24lond/page/252/mode/1up?view=theater
  2. Schintlmeister & Fang, 2001. New and less known Notodontidae from mainland China Neue Ent. Nachr 50 : 3-141. Page 29.
  3. https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-4/tarsolepis/notodontidae_1_2.php
  4. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1020068-Tarsolepis-rufobrunnea

All links accessed on 25 Dec 2023.

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Tarsolepis rufobrunnea Rothschild, 1917 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/tarsolepis-rufobrunnea, accessed 2024/05/05.