Taxonomic Information
List of Microblepsis Warren, 1922 species known from India.
Microblepsis prunicolor (Moore, 1888) (Drepana). India: NE India, Sikkim; NE Myanmar; Nepal.
Microblepsis leucosticta (Hampson, 1895) (Drepana). India: NE India, Sikkim, Meghalaya.
Microblepsis cupreogrisea (Hampson, 1895) (Problepsidis). India: NE Himalaya; S Myanmar.
Microblepsis rugosa (Watson, 1968) (Betalbara). India: NE India, Meghalaya, Nagaland.
Microblepsis violacea (Butler, 1889) (Agnidra). India: NW and NE. India, Himachal Pardesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal; Nepal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Microblepsis prunicolor -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Drepana prunicolor Moore, 1888. Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (3): 288. TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
- , pg 337, no 722 as Drepana prunicolor.
- pl 1/6.
- Watson, A. 1968. The Taxonomy off the Drepaninae represented in China, with an account of their world distribution (Lepidoptera:Drepanidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Supplement 12. Betalbara prunicolor, plate 2 fig.312
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Microblepsis prunicolor (Moore, 1888) – . 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/microblepsis-prunicolor, accessed 2025/04/24.