Taxonomic Information
List of Drapetodes Guenée, 1857 species known from India.
Drapetodes fratercula Moore, 1887. India (NE Himalaya, Meghalaya); Sri Lanka.
Drapetodes matulata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874. India (Assam, Meghalaya).
Drapetodes mitaria Guenée, 1857. India (Sikkim, Assam, Central India).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Drapetodes fratercula -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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Drapetodes fratercula Moore, 1887: Elettaria cardamomum (Zingiberaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Drapetodes fratercula Moore, 1887. Lepid. Ceylon, 3: 541. Pl. 200/1. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36660#page/563/mode/1up. Plate at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36660#page/715/mode/1up
- 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. 346, # 748. As a form of Drapetodes mitaria.
- Drapetodes fratercula albidior Warren, 1922. Gross-Schmett. Erde, 10: 459. Pl 48i.
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 53/2.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-8/drepaninae/drepaninae_21_2.php
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1121158-Drapetodes-fratercula
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Drapetodes fratercula Moore, 1887 – . 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/drapetodes-fratercula, accessed 2025/04/23.