Etanna breviuscula (Walker, 1863) - Pigeonpea Podborer

Taxonomic Information

List of Etanna Walker, 1862 species known from India:

Etanna albisecta (Hampson, 1905) (Nanaguna). India (Meghalaya, Nagaland, Indian Subregion); Sri Lanka.

Etanna albonotata (Hampson, 1894) (Cletthara). India (Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, N.E. Himalaya); Nepal.

Etanna basalis Walker, 1862. India; Sri Lanka.

Etanna binotata (Hampson, 1912) (Apothripa). India (Mizoram, Meghalaya, N.E. Himalaya); Sri Lanka.

Etanna breviuscula (Walker, 1863) (Nanaguna). India (Bihar, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nilgiris, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu); Sri Lanka; Nepal.

Etanna brunnea (Hampson, 1905) (Nanaguna). India (Meghalaya); Indo-Australian tropics

Etanna iphida (Swinhoe, 1901) (Clettharra). India (Meghalaya). 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Etanna breviuscula - Pigeonpea Podborer


StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh12
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra111
Manipur
Meghalaya2
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total121112
  1. Nanaguna breviuscula Walker, 1863. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 27:85. TL: Sarawak, Borneo. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso2728brit/page/85/mode/1up?view=theater
  2. Clettharra valida Walker, 1863. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 27: 101; TL: Sarawak, Borneo. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso2728brit/page/101/mode/1up?view=theater
  3. Bagistana rudis Walker, 1864. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 7: 194; TL: Borneo, Sarawak. Text at https://archive.org/details/journalofproceed07linn/page/194/mode/1up?view=theater
  4. Thrypticodes xyloglypta Lucas, 1890. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 4 (4): 1073; TL: Brisbane. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsoflin0204linn/page/1073/mode/1up?view=theater
  5. Symitha nigridisca Hampson, 1891. Ill. typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln Br. Mus. 8: 87, Pl. 167/10. TL: Nilgiri district. Text at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft08brituoft/page/87/mode/1up?view=theater
  6. Clettharra floccifera Hampson, 1894. Fauna Br. India (Moths) 2: 386; TL: Nagas. Tenasserim. Text at https://archive.org/details/moths02hamp/page/386/mode/1up?view=theater
  7. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl 42 / figs 35 & 40 as Nanaguna breviuscula
  8. http://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Nanaguna_Breviuscula_En
  9. http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/sarr/breviuscula.html
  10. https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-18/sarrothripini/sarrothripini_1_2.php
  11. https://www.papua-insects.nl/insect%20orders/Lepidoptera/Nolidae/Chloephorinae/Sarrothripini/Etanna/Etanna%20breviuscula.htm
  12. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/199530-Etanna-breviuscula

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Etanna breviuscula (Walker, 1863) – Pigeonpea Podborer. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.72. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/etanna-breviuscula, accessed 2024/03/28.