Taxonomic Information
Tridrepana Swinhoe, 1895 species known from India.
Tridrepana acuta Watson, 1957, India: South India; Sri Lanka.
Tridrepana adelpha Swinhoe, 1905. India: NE India, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal.
Tridrepana albonotata albonotata (Moore, 1879) (Drepana). India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal, Tripura, Uttarakhand.
Tridrepana albonotata pervasata (Warren, 1922) (Iridrepana), India: Kerala, South India.
Tridrepana flava Moore, 1879, India: Sikkim, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, NE Himalaya.
Tridrepana fulva (Hampson, 1892) (Drepana). India: Sikkim; Nepal.
Tridrepana fulvata brevis (Watson, 1957) (Tridrepana). India: Assam, Meghalaya; Myanmar.
Tridrepana postica (Moore, 1879) (Drepana). India: NE India, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland.
Tridrepana rubromarginata indica Watson, 1957. India: Sikkim; Bhutan; Nepal.
Tridrepana sadana (Moore, 1865) (Drepana). India: North India, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya; Nepal.
Tridrepana septempunctata septempunctata Warren, 1896. India: Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
Tridrepana albonotata (Moore, 1879): Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Drepana albonotata Moore, 1879. Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (1): 83; TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal. Text at https://archive.org/stream/descriptionsofne00hewi#page/83/mode/1up. TL mentioned on label in NHM as Parisnath, Bihar, might be an error (Watson, 1957).
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig. Pg. 340, # 734 as Drepana albonotata.
- Watson, A., 1957. A revision of the genus Tridrepana Swinhoe. Bull. Brit. Mus.(nat. Hist.), Ent, 4, p.413.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 129/1.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/538906-Tridrepana-albonotata
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-8/drepaninae/drepaninae_22_2.php
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Tridrepana albonotata (Moore, 1879) – . 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/tridrepana-albonotata, accessed 2025/11/03.













