Taxonomic Information
Cotachena Moore, 1885 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Cotachena castoralis Walker, [1859]. India: Sikkim, Andaman Is.; Sri Lanka.
Cotachena histricalis (Walker, 1859). Sri Lanka (TL); India; Myanmar.
Cotachena nepalensis Yamanaka, 2000. Nepal (TL).
Cotachena pubescens (Warren, 1892. India: Himachal Pradesh (Dharmsala: TL).
Cotachena whalleyi Rose & Pajni, 1977. India: Uttarakhand (Dehradun :TL).
Cotachena alysoni Whalley, [1961]. India: Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland; Nepal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Cotachena pubescens -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
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| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 3 | 1 |
- Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs. Pg.142, # 4512 as Cotachena histricalis, form pubescens.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 124/31.
- Irungbam, J.S., M.S. Chib & K. Wangdi, 2016. Taxonomic review of the superfamily Pyraloidea in Bhutan (Lepidoptera). Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 9 (3): 355-382. Fig 8, Image B.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/Crambidae/Pyraustinae/Cotachena_pubescens.html. [accessed 09 July 2019]
- http://pyralids.plattenbaukasten.de/index.php?pubescens. [accessed 09 July 2019]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Cotachena pubescens (Warren, 1892) – . 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/cotachena-pubescens, accessed 2025/04/24.