Tridrepana fulvata Watson, 1957 -

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

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh112
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya51
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
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  1. OD: Drepana fulvata Snellen, 1877; Tijdschr. Ent. 20: 19.
  2. Tridrepana fulvata Watson, 1957. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 4 (9).
  3. Tridrepana fulvata brevis Watson, 1957. A Revision of the Genus Tridrepana Swinhoe (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae). Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 4 (9): 421. Figs 4–6, 9. Holotype (BMNH). Fig. 1-4.
  4. Kishida, Y. (Ed.). 2020. Moths of Laos, Part 1, TINEA Vol. 25, (Supplement 2), pp. 1-224, 94 pls. Pg. 16, Pl. 2/4.
  5. Barlow, Moths of SE Asia, Pg. 115, Pl. 39/5.
  6. https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-8/drepaninae/drepaninae_22_1.php
  7. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/199677-Tridrepana-fulvata

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Tridrepana fulvata Watson, 1957 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/tridrepana-fulvata, accessed 2025/08/14.