Taxonomic Information
List of Spilarctia Butler, 1875 known from India.
Spilarctia bifascia Hampson, 1891. India (South India).
Spilarctia casigneta (Kollar, [1844]). India (NW Himalayas, West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris) Meghalaya, Kerala).
Spilarctia castanea Hampson, 1893. India (Maharashtra); Sri Lanka.
Spilarctia comma (Walker, 1856). India (NW Himalayas (Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh), Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand).
Spilarctia coorgensis Kirti & Gill, 2010. India (Kerala, Karnataka).
Spilarctia dalbergiae Moore, 1888. India (Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh).
Spilarctia eldorado (Rothschild, 1910). India (Meghalaya).
Spilarctia gopara (Moore, 1859). India (Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya).
Spilarctia irregularis (Rothschild, 1910). India (Sikkim, West Bengal).
Spilarctia leopardina (Kollar, [1844]). India (Indian Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh).
Spilarctia melanostigma (Erschoff, 1872). India (North India including Ladakh), Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland).
Spilarctia mona (Swinhoe, 1885). India (Maharashtra, Meghalaya).
Spilarctia montana (Guerin–Meneville, 1843). India (Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris), Punjab, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh).
Spilarctia obliqua (Walker, 1855), India (Throughout India).
Spilarctia punctata (Moore, 1859).India (Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, West Bengal, Uttarakhand).
Spilarctia rubilinea (Moore, 1865). India (Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya).
Spilarctia sagittifera Moore, 1888. India (Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim).
Spilarctia tamangi (Thomas, 1994). India (Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal).
Spilarctia tigrina (Moore, 1879). India (Tamil Nadu).
Spilarctia todara (Moore, 1872). India (Kerala, Tamil Nadu).
Spilarctia xanthogaster (Thomas, 1994). India (Meghalaya, Assam).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similar species: Spilarctia ummera (Myanmar) and Spilartcia procedra (extralimital). None of the males have so much black on HW.
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- Spilosoma gopara Moore, [1860]; in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. Ins. Mus. Nat. East India House 2: 356, pl. 9a, f. 11; TL: Sikkim. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid02east/page/356/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid02east/page/n222/mode/1up?view=theater
- Spilosoma gopara; 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. 5, #1167.
- Diacrisia gopara; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3: 293. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid03brituoft/page/293/mode/1up?view=theater
- Diacrisia gopara; Rothschild, 1910, Novit. Zool. 17 (2): 136. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi17lond/page/136/mode/1up?view=theater
- Diacrisia gopara Moore; Rothschild,1914 in Seitz, A. (Ed.). Macrolepidoptera of the World Vol. 10:243, pl. 21-g,h
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. pg. 68, pl. 79:11.
- Spilosoma gopara; Moths of Thailand Volume 6-Arctiidae Text Page 376 Pl 42-376a Male
- Dubatolov, V.V. 2010. Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten. Marktleuthen. Bd. 65. P. 1-106.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1. Nature Books of India, New Delhi, 205 pp. pg. 48.
- 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.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Spilarctia gopara (Moore, [1860]) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Spilarctia-gopara, accessed 2024/04/28.