Taxonomic Information
List of Cechetra Zolotuhin & Ryabov, 2012 known from India.
Cechetra lineosa (Walker, 1856), Arunachal Pradesh (Chandra and Sambath 2013), Assam (Arandhara et al., 2017), Punjab (Singh and Kaur 2020).
Cechetra minor (Butler, 1875), Nepal, Northern India (Pittaway and Kitching, 2020).
Cechetra scotti Rothschild, 1920, North West India and Nepal (Rafi et al., 2014).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Cechetra lineosa - Striped Green Hawkmoth
A very variable species with forms that may appear very similiar to the species below:
C.minor: the thorax is plain, lacking the pale stripe in the middle of the thorax.
C.scotti: the forewings flushed pink basally and the antennae proximally pink, the green costa is very prominent.
C.subangustata: upperside forewings uniformingly green underside greenish tone not an orange tone.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Cechetra lineosa (Walker, 1856) – Striped Green Hawkmoth. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.50. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/cechetra-lineosa, accessed 2023/06/04.