Taxonomic Information
List of Trabala Walker, 1856 species known from Indian subregion (Zolotuhin & Pinratana, 2005 and Saini et al 2019).
Trabala ganesha Roepke, 1951. India: NW Himalaya.
Trabala irrorata Moore, 1884. South Myanmar?
Trabala pallida (Walker, 1855). India: Himachal Pradesh, S. India, Andaman Is.
Trabala vishnou (Lefèbvre, 1827). India.
Trabala viridana Joicey & Talbot, 1917. NE India?.
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Similar species: Trabala pallida which is small, has post-medial line curved near costa and dark cilia.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 8 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Goa | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 4 | 1 | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 3 |
Trabala vishnou (Lefèbvre, 1827) – Vishnu Lappet Moth: Berberis asiatica (Berberidaceae),Bischofia javanica (Phyllanthaceae), Butea monosperma (Leguminosae),Camellia sinensis (Theaceae), Eucalyptus robusta, Syzygium cumini (Myrtaceae),Lagerstroemia speciosa (Lythraceae), Planchonia careya (Lecythidaceae), Quercus dilatata (Fagaceae), Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae), Terminalia bellirica, Terminalia catappa (Combretaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010); Psidium guajava (Myrtaceae) (reared by Sanjay Sondhi, 2020).
- , pg 42, pl 3/11-13.
- Saini, S., Kaleka, A.S. and Singh, D., 2019. Studies on three species of genus Trabala Walker (Lasiocampidae: Bombycoidea: Lepidoptera) from North West India. Annals Entomology, 37(01), pp.19-27.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Trabala vishnou (Lefèbvre, 1827) – Vishnu Lappet Moth. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.83. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/trabala-vishnou, accessed 2025/03/28.