
Taxonomic Information
Thysanoplusia Ichinose, 1973 species known from India.
Thysanoplusia lectula (Walker, 1858): India: West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala; Nepal; Bangladesh; Sri Lanka.
Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775): India; Nepal.
Thysanoplusia intermixta (Warren, 1913). India: Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Thysanoplusia reticulata (Moore,1882). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu.
Thysanoplusia daubei Boisduval, 1840. India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Thysanoplusia intermixta Warren, 1913. In orichalcea the end of the brass band towards the wing base is more wedged shape, more rounded in intermixta. In orichalcea, the position of the orbicular stigma is positioned mid way below the bottom portion of the greenish-golden finger.
Diagnosis (Vide MOB). The pale lustrous green areas of the forewings are distinctive except for possible confusion with a congener, intermixta Warren (below), which occurs sympatrically with orichalcea throughout the Oriental tropics to Java but has not yet been recorded from Borneo. T. intermixta has a forewing green area of somewhat yellower tone, crossed by a more distinct irregular submarginal; the green area extends slightly less basad and is basally more blunt; the hindwings are paler, more yellowish.
State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
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Chandigarh | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | 3 | ||||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Kerala | |||||||||||||
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Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
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Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
West Bengal | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
Total | 1 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775): Melilotus indicus, Pisum sativum, Trifolium alexandrinum, Vigna mungo (Fabaceae), Pentas lanceolata (Rubiaceae),Raphanus raphanistrum ssp. sativus (Brassicaceae), Solanum tuberosum (Solanaceae),Syzygium cumini (Myrtaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Noctua orichalcea Fabricius, 1775. Syst. Ent.: 607.
- Phalaena chrysitina Martyn, 1797. Psyche: pl. 21; TL: Madras.
- Noctua aurifera Hübner, [1808-18], Samml. eur. Schmett. 4: fig. 463.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl.44:12
- https://www.leps.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesPages/ThysaOrich.htm
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-14/plusiinae/plusiinae_4_1.php
- Shashank, P.R. and Twinkle, S. 2018. Plusiinae of India. World Wide Web electronic publication. DST-SERB Project, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India. http://npc.iari.res.in/plusiinae/index.php
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Fabricius, 1775) – Slender Burnished Brass. 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/thysanoplusia-orichalcea, accessed 2025/04/24.