Taxonomic Information
Eupanacra Cadiou & Holloway, 1989 species known from India.
Eupanacra automedon (Walker, 1856). India: Assam (Arandhara et al., 2017), North East India, Nepal (Leong, 2009).
Eupanacra elegantulus (Herrich-Schäffer, [1856]). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Eupanacra frena (Swinhoe, 1892). India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh.
Eupanacra busiris (Walker, 1856). India: Assam (Arandhara et al., 2017), Himalayan region (Sanyal et al., 2018), Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Andaman & Nicobar Is.
Eupanacra laplume Haxaire & Melichar, 2024. India: Assam.
Eupanacra malayana (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903). India: Himalayan region (Sanyal et al., 2018).
Eupanacra moseri (Gehlen, 1930). India: Assam.
Eupanacra metallica (Butler, 1875). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim (Bortolin et al., 1998).
Eupanacra mydon (Walker, 1856). India: Assam (Arandhara et al.,2017), Meghalaya (Bortolin et al.,1998), West Bengal, Uttarakhand (Sondhi and Sondhi, 2016); Bhutan; Bangladesh.
Eupanacra perfecta (Butler, 1875). India: Sikkim, West Bengal (Kitching, 2020), Arunachal Pradesh; Bhutan.
Eupanacra radians (Gehlen, 1930). India: Himalayan region (Sanyal et al., 2018).
Eupanacra regularis (Butler, 1875). India: Assam.
Eupanacra sinuata (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903). India: North East India, Nepal (Pittaway and Kitching, 2020).
Eupanacra variolosa (Walker, 1856). India: Himalayan region (Sanyal et al., 2018), Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Total | 1 |
- Panacra variolosa Walker, 1856; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 156. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimens08brit/page/156/mode/1up
- Inoue, H., R.D. Kennett & I.J. Kitching. 1997. Moths of Thailand, Volume 2: Sphingidae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 149 pp. + 44 pls. Pl. 25/97.
- Kishida, Y. (Ed.). 2020. Moths of Laos, Part 1, TINEA Vol. 25, (Supplement 2), pp. 1-224, 94 pls. pg. 108, Pl. 47/12.
- Irungbam, J.S., Kalawate, A., Ahmad, J., Bhattacharya, K., Joshi, R. and Singh, N., 2026. A catalogue of Bombycoidea of India (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa, 5808(1), pp.1-128.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121107050658/http://www.cate-sphingidae.org/taxonomy/Eupanacra/variolosa.html
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/species/eupanacra-variolosa
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/546918-Eupanacra-variolosa
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Eupanacra variolosa (Walker, 1856) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.21. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/eupanacra-variolosa, accessed 2026/05/22.