Taxonomic Information
Spilarctia Butler, 1875 species 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 |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 7 | 9 | 1 | 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 UT | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 2 | 24 | 19 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 26 | 9 | 8 |
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 2025. Spilarctia spp. Butler, 1875 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.92. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/spilarctia-spp, accessed 2025/07/10.