Calliteara angulata (Hampson, 1895) -

Taxonomic Information

Calliteara Butler, 1881 species known from India. 
Calliteara angulata (Hampson, 1895). India: NE Himalaya, Meghalaya; Nepal. 
Calliteara aphrasta (Collenette, 1938). India. 
Calliteara brunnescens (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh; Nepal; Bhutan. 
Calliteara cerebosa (Swinhoe, 1903). India: NW Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh (TL: Solun, Shimla); Nepal.
Calliteara cerigoides (Walker, 1862). S. India, Kerala; Myanmar.
Calliteara cinctata (Moore, 1879). India: Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim; Nepal.
Calliteara complicata (Walker, 1865). India: North India, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Punjab, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal.
Calliteara grotei (Moore, 1859). India: N. India, Punjab, Uttarakhand, NW Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Maharashtra, Goa, Nilgiris, Kerala, Tamil Nadu. 
Calliteara himalayana Kishida, 1994. Nepal. 
Calliteara horsfieldii (Saunders, 1851). India: Himalaya, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala; Nepal; Sri Lanka. 
Calliteara postfusca (Swinhoe, 1895). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand; Nepal. 
Calliteara strigata (Moore, 1879). India: Meghalaya, Uttarakhand (TL: Mussoorie), Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal. 
Calliteara varia (Walker, 1855). India: Nagaland, West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal; Myanmar. 
Calliteara taiwana (Wileman, 1910). India: Himachal Pradesh
Calliteara siniaevi Trofimova, Shovkoon & Witt, 2016. India: Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Calliteara angulata -

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
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Calliteara angulata (Hampson, 1895): Quercus acutissima (Fagaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
  1. Dasychira angulata Hampson, 1895. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (2): 292; TL: Sikkim. Text at https://archive.org/details/transactionsofen1895roya/page/291/mode/1up?view=theater
  2. Orgyia angulata Swinhoe, 1923. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (64): 403. Text at https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazine9111923lond/page/403/mode/1up?view=theater
  3. Dasychira angulata Collenette,1932, Novit. Zool. 38: 88.Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi38lond/page/88/mode/1up?view=theater
  4. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl 54/3.
  5. Bali, G.P.K., Kaleka, A.S. and Singh, D., 2021. Taxonomic studies on nine species of genus Calliteara Butler (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) with two new records from India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 118(2), pp.105-124.
  6. https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-5/orgyiini/orgyiini_5_8.php
  7. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=350171 [accessed 18 July 2021]
  8. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202651-Calliteara-angulata

 

 

 

 

 

Page citation

Anonymous 2026. Calliteara angulata (Hampson, 1895) – . 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/calliteara-angulata, accessed 2026/02/15.