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
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 7 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | 3 | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 24 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 9 | 7 |
Spilarctia spp.: Gmelina arborea (Lamiaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010). Cleome rutidosperma (Capparaceae). The caterpillar resembles closely with Spilarctia obliqua. Caterpillars are very notorious. Very hard to rear & allergic. Saumen Pal, the rearer, states he was infected by the caterpillars (Pal 2022).
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Spilarctia spp. Butler, 1875 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.80. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/spilarctia-spp, accessed 2024/10/13.