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
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 5 |
- Dasychira cinctata Moore, 1879. Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (1): 59; TL: Darjiling. Text at https://archive.org/stream/descriptionsofne00hewi#page/59/mode/1up
- Orgyia cinctata Swinhoe, 1923, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (64): 402. Text at https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazine9111923lond/page/402/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig.Pg. 449, # 1002
- Bryk, F. 1934. Lepidopterorum Catalogus, Lymantriidae, 62: 441 pp. W. Junk, Berlin.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 54/6. As Calliteara cinctata.
- Wang, H., Wahlberg, N., Holloway, J.D., Bergsten, J., Fan, X., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Wen, L., Wang, M. and Nylin, S., 2015. Molecular phylogeny of Lymantriinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Erebidae) inferred from eight gene regions. Cladistics, 31(6), pp.579-592.
- 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.
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Calliteara cinctata (Moore, 1879) – . 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-cinctata, accessed 2026/02/15.