Taxonomic Information
Amerila Walker, 1855 species known from India.
Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773). India: Throughout India, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Kerala.
Amerila eugenia (Fabricius, 1794). India: Central and South India, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh.
Amerila omissa (Rothschild, 1910). India: NW Himalayas, Assam, Meghalaya, NE Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh.
Amerila rhodopa Walker, 1864. India: Sikkim, Nagaland, Southern India, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- Noctua eugenia Fabricius, 1794. Ent. Syst. 3 (2): 19-20. Text at https://archive.org/details/entomologiasyst3fabr/page/19/mode/1up?view=theater (French)
- Rhodogastria astreas; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3: 504. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid03brituoft/page/504/mode/1up?view=theater
- Rhodogastria eugenia; Hampson, 1920, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. (Suppl.) 2: 529, pl. 69, f. 19. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid02brit/page/529/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid12brit/page/n304/mode/2up?view=theater
- Singh, N. and Singh, J., 2012. Genitalic studies of Amerila eugenia (Fabricius)(Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) from Karnataka, India. Journal of threatened taxa, pp.2398-2401.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1, pp 1-205. Nature Books of India, New Delhi. pg. 57-58.
- Biswas, O., Chakraborti, U., Roy, S., Modak, B.K., Shah, S.K. and Panja, B., 2016. First record of Amerila eugenia (Fabricius, 1794)[Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae] from Eastern India. Entomology and Applied Science Letters, 3(3), pp.6-9. Fig. 2.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Amerila eugenia (Fabricius, 1794) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.91. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/amerila-eugenia, accessed 2025/06/27.