
Taxonomic Information
Artaxa Walker, 1855 species from India (Joshi et al, 2025).
Artaxa angulata (Matsumura, 1927). India; Myanmar; Sri Lanka.
Artaxa comparata (Walker, 1865). N. India.
Artaxa digramma (Boisduval, [1844]). India: Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Maharashtra, Manipur, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Artaxa distracta Walker, 1865. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Artaxa kanshireia (Wileman, 1910). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram.
Artaxa pseudoguttata N. Singh, 2019. India: Jharkhand.
Artaxa valmikiensis N. Singh, 2019. India: Bihar.
Artaxa vitellina (Kollar, 1848). India: Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh.
Artaxa guttata Walker, 1855 is probably a synonym of Artaxa digramma (Boisduval, [1844]) (Holloway, 1999; Kaleka et al, 2021; Joshi et al, 2025) as the genitalia in Kaleka et al. (2021) are identical. However, this needs further investigation and confirmation.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Artaxa digramma (Boisduval, 1844): Melastoma malabathricum (Melastomataceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Bombyx digramma Boisduval, 1844. In: Guérin-Ménéville, Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier, Insectes: 508.
- Kaleka, A.P.S., 2012. Diversity of Tussock moths (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) on the Western Himalaya. Colemania, 31, pp.3-15.
- Kaleka, A.S., Singh, D. and Bali, G.P.K., 2021. Further studies on genus Artaxa Walker (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from India. Oriental Insects, 56(2), pp.198-212.
- Joshi, R., Zahiri, R., Banerjee, D. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5635(1), pp.1-247.
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-5/nygmiini/nygmiini_5_1.php [accessed 10 August 2019]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/806586-Artaxa-digramma
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artaxa_digramma
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=641676 [accessed 10 August 2019]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Artaxa digramma (Boisduval, 1844) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.92. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/artaxa-digramma, accessed 2025/07/15.