Taxonomic Information
List of Cania Walker, 1855 species known from India.
Cania acutivalva Holloway, 1986. Myanmar.
Cania bilinea (Walker, 1855). Bhutan; India.
Cania himalayana Holloway, 1987. Nepal; Pakistan; India: N.India, Punjab, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Assam.
Cania obliquifascia (Hampson, 1900).Sri Lanka; India: Chennai, Trichinopoly, Tamil Nadu, Calicut, Kerela.
Cania robusta Hering, 1931. India: Manipur.
Cania sericea Walker, 1855. India.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Cania spp. -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
- Cania Walker, 1855. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 5: 1177; TL: India. text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso46brit#page/1177/mode/1up.
- Solovyev, A.V., 2014. A taxonomic and morphological review of the genus Cania Walker, 1855 (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Entomological Review, 94(5), pp.698-711.
- Irungbam, J.S., Ahmad, J., Singh, N. and Solovyev, A.V., 2022. Two new species and three new record species of family Limacodidae from northeast India (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 25(3), p.101928.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Cania spp. Walker, 1855 – . 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/cania-spp, accessed 2025/10/31.