Taxonomic Information
List of Agnidra Moore, 1867 species known from India.
Agnidra specularia (Walker, 1866) (Fascellina). India (NE India, West Bengal, Sikkim); Bhutan; Myanmar; Sri Lanka; Nepal.
Agnidra corticata corticata (Warren, 1922) (Drepana). India (NE India).
Agnidra vinacea (Moore, 1879) (Drepana). India (Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland, N.E. India, Uttarakhand); NE Myanmar; Nepal.
Agnidra discispilaria Moore, 1868. India (NE India, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Uttarakhand); Myanmar; Nepal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Agnidra vinacea -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
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| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
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| Goa | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
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| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
- OD: Drepana vinacea Moore, 1879. Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (1): 85, TL: Darjeeling at http://archive.org/stream/descriptionsofne00hewi#page/85/mode/1up [accessed 17 December 2018]
- Agnidra vinacea; Watson, 1968, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) Suppl. 12 : 40, f. 52-56, pl. 1, f. 305
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/70_DREPANOIDEA/Drepanidae/03_Drepaninae/24_Agnidra/Agnidra%20vinacea/Agnidra%20vinacea_080922157.jpg. [accessed 17 December 2018]
- 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. 337, # 724.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Plate 1/4.
- Dey, P. & S. Sondhi. 2019. First records of Agnidra vinacea (Moore, 1879) (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae: Drepaninae) from the western Himalaya, extending its known range westwards. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 11(5), 13622-13624. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.4593.11.5.13622-13624.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Agnidra vinacea (Moore, 1879) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://mothsofindia.org/agnidra-vinacea, accessed 2025/04/23.