Taxonomic Information
Lymantria Hübner, [1819] species known from the Indian subcontinent based on Schintlmeister, 2004 and Pogue, 2007
South and West India and Sri Lanka.
Lymantria detersa Walker, 1865. India:S. & W. India, Kerala, Telangana, Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal.
Lymantria costalis Walker, 1865. Sri Lanka; “India”.
Lymantria fuliginosa Moore, 1883. W. & S. India; Sri Lanka.
Lymantria todara Moore, 1879. S. India, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala, Nilgiris; Sri Lanka. Sister species of L. similis.
Lymantria grandis Walker, 1855. India: S India, Maharashtra; Sri Lanka
Lymantria ampla (Walker, 1855). India: S. India, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Manipur, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal; Bangladesh; Sri Lanka.
Lymantria aryama Moore, 1859. India: S. India, Sikkim, Nagaland; Nepal.
Lymantria subrosea subrosea Swinhoe, 1903. India: Tamil Nadu, Kerala.
Lymantria nussi Schintlmeister, 2004. S. India, Tamil Nadu, Kerala.
Lymantria kanara Collenette, 1951. S. India, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka.
Lymantria vinacea Moore, 1879. India: Karnataka (TL: Canara).
NW Himalaya & Nepal
Lymantria incerta Walker, 1855. India: NW India, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Ladakh.
Lymantria moesta Swinhoe, 1903. India: NW India; Nepal.
Lymantria sobrina sobrina Moore, 1879. NW India, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Lymantria maxfischeri Schintlmeister, 2004. Nepal.
Lymantria liedgensi Schintlmeister, 2004. India: Uttarakhand.
Lymantria schnitzleri Schintlmeister, 2004. Nepal.
Lymantria semicincta (Walker, 1855). India: NW. Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Jharkhand, West Bengal; Nepal.
E. Himalaya
Lymantria aryama Moore, 1859. India: S. India, Sikkim, Nagaland; Nepal.
Lymantria apicebrunnea Gaede, 1932. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Lymantria ascetria Hübner, [1819]. India: West Bengal.
Lymantria hauensteini Schintlmeister, 2004. India: Arunachal Pradesh; Myanmar.
Lymantria iris Strand, 1911, formerly ssp of obsoleta. NE India, Assam, Meghalaya.
Lymantria bivittata Moore, 1879. India: C. & E. Himalaya, NE India, West Bengal, Assam, Nagaland, Andamans.
Lymantria grisea grisea Moore, 1879. India: NE India, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal.
Lymantria brotea lepcha Moore, 1879. India: E. Himalaya.
Lymantria lepcha Moore, 1879 treated as a separate species on the website.
Lymantria maxfischeri Schintlmeister, 2004. India: Assam.
Lymantria minomonis Matsumura, 1933. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Lymantria obsoleta Walker, 1855. India: NE India, Uttarakhand, North India, West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Lymantria plumbalis Hampson, 1895. TL: Myanmar; India: Nagaland, Manipur.
Lymantria similis Moore, 1879. Bhutan; NE India, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland.
Lymantria subrosea singapura Schintlmeister, 2004.India: NE India.
Lymantria sublunata thomasi Schintlmeister, 2004. India: Sikkim, Andamans.
Himalaya
Lymantria albolunulata Moore, 1879. India: Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam; Nepal.
Lymantria concolor concolor Walker, 1855. India: N. India, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand,Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim; Bangladesh.
Lymantria liedgensi Schintlmeister, 2004. India: N. India, Assam, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand (TL: Bhimtal).
Lymantria marginata Walker, 1855. India: Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Meghalaya, NE India; Bangladesh.
Lymantria mathura Moore, 1866. India: Himalaya, NE India.
Lymantria obfuscata Walker, 1865. India: NW India, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Ladakh, West Bengal.
Lymantra serva Fabricius, 1793. Himalaya, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya; Nepal.
Andamans only
Lymantria grigorievi Schintlmeister, 2004. India: Andamans.
Lymantria brotea rudloffi Schintlmeister, 2004. India: Andamans.
Lymantria swetlanae Schintlmeister, 2004. India: Andamans.
Lymantria siniaevi Schintlmeister, 2004. India: Andamans.
Lymantria sublunata thomasi Schintlmeister, 2004. India: Sikkim, Andamans.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 |
Lymantria semicincta (Walker, 1855): Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Alope semicincta Walker, 1855\.; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 3: 620; TL: N.India. Text at http://archive.org/stream/listofspecimens13brit#page/620/mode/1up [accessed 15 August 2017]
- 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 466, # 1044.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 80/23.
- Sondhi, Y. & S. Sondhi. 2016. A partial checklist of moths (Lepidoptera) of Dehradun, Mussoorie and Devalsari in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(5): 8756–8776; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2814.8.5.8756-8776. Image 184.
Note: Other members of the subgenus Nyctria, represented in India by L. mathura (throughout the Himalaya and NE India) and by L. grandis (South India and Sri. Lanka). A similiar species L. murzini also occurs in N. Myanmar (Schintlmeister, 2004).
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Lymantria semicincta (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/lymantria-semicincta, accessed 2026/02/15.