Taxonomic Information
Lemyra Walker, 1856 species known from S. India (Singh et al 2021).
Lemyra angularis Strand, 1922. Considered a synonym of Lemyra spilosomata (Walker, 1864 [1865]) (Singh et al 2024).
Lemyra cernyi N. Singh & Kirti, 2016
Lemyra coorgensis N. Singh & Kirti, 2016
Lemyra cornutiata (Kirti and Gill, 2008)
Lemyra eximia (Swinhoe, 1891)
Lemyra latauncus N. Singh & Kirti, 2016
Lemyra malshejensis Kirti & Gill, 2008
Lemyra melanochroa (Hampson, 1918)
Lemyra neglecta (Rothschild, 1910)
Lemyra orhanti N. Singh & Kirti, 2016
Lemyra spilosomata (Walker, 1864 [1865])
Lemyra spinisinferma N. Singh & Kirti, 2016
Lemyra Walker, 1856 species known from NE India.
Lemyra angularis Strand, 1922. Considered a synonym of Lemyra spilosomata (Walker, 1864 [1865]) (Singh et al 2024).
Lemyra venosa (Moore, 1879). India: Meghalaya, West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling)
Lemyra biseriata (Moore, 1877)
Lemyra collarlis N. Singh, Kirti & Kaleka, 2016
Lemyra excelsa Thomas, 1990
Lemyra flavalis (Moore, 1865)
Lemyra khasiana Thomas, 1990
Lemyra magnaproteus N. Singh & Kirti, 2016
Lemyra melanosoma (Hampson, 1894)
Lemyra multivittata (Moore, 1865)
Lemyra neglecta (Rothschild, 1910)
Lemyra neurica (Hampson, 1911)
Lemyra nigrescens (Rothschild, 1910)
Lemyra nigrifrons (Walker, 1865)
Lemyra obliquivitta (Moore, 1879)
Lemyra pilosa (Rothschild, 1910)
Lemyra pseudocollarlis N. Singh, Kirti & Kaleka, 2016
Lemyra pseudoneurica N. Singh, Kirti & Joshi, 2016
Lemyra punctilinea (Moore, 1879)
Lemyra rhodophila (Walker, 1864 [1865]). India: Himachal Pradesh east to E. Himalaya, Nagaland, Manipur;
Nepal; Myanmar.
Lemyra rubidorsa (Moore, 1865)
Lemyra sikkimensis (Moore, 1879)
Lemyra sordidescens (Hampson 1901)
Lemyra stigmata (Moore, 1865). India: Kashmir east to E. Himalaya, Nagaland; Nepal; Bhutan.
Lemyra wokhaensis N. Singh, Kirti & Joshi, 2016
Lemyra Walker, 1856 species known from NW Himalaya.
Lemyra bimaculata (Moore, 1879)
Lemyra bucseki N. Singh & Kirti, 2016
Lemyra melanosoma (Hampson, 1894)
Lemyra melli (Daniel, 1943)
Lemyra multivittata (Moore, 1865)
Lemyra pseudobimaculata N. Singh & Kirti, 2016
Lemyra rhodophila (Walker, 1864 [1865]). India: Himachal Pradesh east to E. Himalaya, Nagaland, Manipur;
Nepal; Myanmar.
Lemyra rubidorsa (Moore, 1865)
Lemyra stigmata (Moore, 1865). India: Kashmir east to E. Himalaya, Nagaland; Nepal; Bhutan.
Lemyra tawaghatensis N. Singh & Kirti, 2016. India: India: Uttarakhand (TL: Pithoragarh district], Tawaghat)
Lemyra Walker, 1856 species known from Western India.
Lemyra pseudoburmanica N. Singh & Kirti, 2016. India: Maharashtra, Kerala, Jammu & Kashmir.
Lemyra saputarensis N. Singh & Kirti, 2016. India, Gujarat (TL: Dang district], Saputara).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Spilosoma rhodophila Walker, [1865]. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 31: 294; TL: Sikkim. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3132brit/page/294/mode/1up?view=theater
- Diacrisia rhodophila; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3: 264. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid03brituoft/page/264/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs.Pg. 15, # 1199.
- Spilarctia rhodophila; Daniel, 1943, Mitt. Münch. Ent. Ges. 33 (3): 708, pl. 19, f. 16-17, 19-20. Text at https://archive.org/details/mitteilungenderm331943mn/page/n1018/mode/1up?view=theater&q=+Spilarctia+rhodophila
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 18/18.
- Dubatolov, V.V. 2012. "Tiger Moths (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) of the Oriental Region, Australia and Oceania". Siberian Zoological Museum. Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2016. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 2. Nature Books of India, New Delhi, 214 pp. Pg. 14 states thorax is yellowish, which seems an error.
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Plate 5/130.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lemyra rhodophila (Walker, [1865]) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.91. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Lemyra-rhodophila, accessed 2025/07/06.