Taxonomic Information
List of Padenia Moore, [1882] known from India (Kirti et al. 2020).
Padenia acutifascia de Joannis, 1928. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya.
Padenia duplicana (Walker, 1863). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Padenia obliquifascia Rothschild, 1920. India: Andamans & Nicobar.
Padenia transversa (Walker, 1854). India: Kerala, Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris), Orissa, Karnataka, Maharashtra; Sri Lanka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Notes: The only species known from S. India is Padenia transversa (Walker, 1854). Padenia duplicana (Walker, 1863) and Padenia acutifascia de Joannis, 1928 have been recorded from NE India, while Padenia obliquifascia Rothschild, 1920 is known from Andaman & Nicobar Is. Hind wing assists in separating Padenia duplicana (Walker, 1863) and Padenia acutifascia de Joannis, 1928.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
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| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
- OD: Cyllene transversa Walker, 1854. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 2: 544; TL: Ceylon. Text at http://archive.org/stream/listofspecimens13brit#page/544/mode/1up [accessed 20 February 2018]
- Hampson, G.F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg. 98, # 1401.
- Hampson, G. F. 1900. Catalogue of Arctidae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the collection of the British Musuem, Vol. 2, Pg 263, No. 552 for P. transversa.
- Kirti, J.S.; Singh, N. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1. Pg. 149.
- Kirti, J.S., Datta, H.S., Bisht, S.S., Param, H.S. & Singh, N. 2020. Two New records of the genus Padenia Moore, 1882 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini) from India. Records of Zoological Survey of India, 120 (4), 1–7.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Padenia transversa (Walker, 1854) – . 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/padenia-transversa, accessed 2025/04/23.