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
Lemyra stigmata -
Similar species:
Spilarctia dalbergiae Moore, 1888
Lemyra multivittata (Moore, 1865)
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- OD: Spilosoma stigmata Moore, 1865. Proc. Zool. Zoc. Lond., 1865: 809. TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal. Text at https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen65zool#page/809/mode/1up
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 79/6.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2016. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 2. Nature Books of India, New Delhi, 214 pp. Pg. 7.
- 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. Image 128.
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 115/3.
- Singh, N. ,Joshi, R.,Kirti, J. S.,Bisht, S. S., & H. S. Param. 2021. A catalogue of Indian Arctiinae (Erebidae, Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 5058 (1): 001–118. Lists Lemyra walkeri Kaleka, 2001 as a junior synonym.
- Singh, H., Raha, A., Kirti, J.S. and Singh, N., 2024. Taxonomic review of the genus Lemyra Walker (Erebidae: Arctiinae) from India. Zootaxa, 5454(1), pp.1-69.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=341283
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Lemyra stigmata (Moore, [1866]) – . 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-stigmata, accessed 2025/07/04.