Taxonomic Information
Altha Walker, 1862 species known from India.
Altha adala (Moore,[1860]). India: Nagas, Nilgris; Sri Lanka.
Altha contaminata Hampson, 1892. India: Nilgris.
Altha lacteola Swinhoe, 1890. Sri Lanka.
Altha nivea Walker, 1862. India; Bhutan.
Altha subnotata (Walker, 1865). N. India; Nepal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Similar species is Altha subnotata.
Althonarosa peralbida (Swinhoe, 1904). India: Maharashtra (Pune). This is a similar species to Altha Walker, 1862.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Assam | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Altha nivea Walker, 1862: Bombax ceiba (Malvaceae), Polyalthia longifolia (Annonaceae), Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae),Terminalia myriocarpa (Combretaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Altha nivea Walker, 1862, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 6: 173.
- Hampson, G. 1892. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae, pg 397 # 887.
- Holloway, J. D. 1986. The Moths of Borneo. Part 1. Key to Families: Cossidae, Metarbelidae, Ratardidae, Dudgeoneidae, Epipyropidae and Limacodidae. http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-1/limacodidae/limacodidae-4-1.php [accessed 10 February 2017]
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 39/7.
- Solovyev, A.V. & T.J. Witt. 2009. The Limacodidae of Vietnam. Entomofauna Supplement 16: 33-229. pdf , pl 7/5, pg 53.
- ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources. http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Altha-nivea.php [accessed 10 February 2017]
- jpmoth.org. Digital Moths of Asia. http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/60_ZYGAENOIDEA/Limacodidae/04_Altha/Altha%20nivea/Altha%20nivea.htm [accessed 10 February 2017]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Altha nivea Walker, 1862 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/altha-nivea, accessed 2025/10/30.