Taxonomic Information
Teulisna Walker, 1862 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Teulisna basigera (Walker, 1864). India: Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra.
Teulisna distributa Volynkin, Černý & Huang, 2025. India: Uttarakhand, Sikkim; Nepal; Myanmar.
Teulisna ganesha Volynkin, 2023. India: Sikkim; Nepal (TL).
Teulisna hreblayi Volynkin & Huang, 2024. Nepal (TL).
Teulisna inducta (Walker, 1864). India: Nilgiris in S. India.
Teulisna karena Černý, 2009. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram.
Teulisna khasiana Volynkin, Černý & Huang, 2025. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Teulisna kishidai Huang, Volynkin & Müller, 2024. Myanmar.
Teulisna murina (Heylaerts, 1891). India: Nagaland.
Teulisna obliquistria Hampson, 1894. Myanmar.
Teulisna pallida (Moore, 1878). India: Uttarakhand (TL: Nainital), Himachal Pradesh (Dalhousie); Nepal.
Teulisna pilcheri Volynkin, Černý & Huang, 2025. India: Sikkim (TL), West Bengal, Assam; Nepal.
Teulisna plagiata Walker,1862; India: Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur.
Teulisna protuberans (Moore, 1878). India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal (Darjeeling), Mizoram, Nagaland; Bhutan.
Teulisna quadrisignata (Moore, 1878). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim.
Teulisna robusta Volynkin, Černý & Huang, 2025. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Teulisna swanni Volynkin, Černý & Huang, 2025. India: Meghalaya; Myanmar (TL).
Teulisna tenebrosus Singh & Kirti, 2016. India: Assam.
Teulisna thomasi Volynkin, 2023. India: Sikkim (TL).
Teulisna tumida (Walker, 1862). India: Sikkim, Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh; Sri Lanka.
Teulisna unicornuta Kirti, Joshi & Singh, 2014. India: Karnataka, Kerala.
Teulisna uniplaga Hampson, 1894. India: Assam; Myanmar.
Teulisna uniformis (Hampson, 1894). Myanmar.
Teulisna murina (Heylaerts, 1891) and Teulisna uniformis (Hampson, 1894) are transferred to the genus Bitecta Heylaerts, 1891.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Teulisna karena -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
- Teulisna karena Cerný, 2009. Moths of Thailand, Vol. 6, Arctiidae. 283 pp.
- Kirti, J.S., Joshi, R. and Singh, N., 2014. A new species of genus Teulisna Walker (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from India. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 57(1-2), pp.11-19. Pg. 14, fig 6.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1, pp 1-205. Nature Books of India, New Delhi. Pg. 113.
- Volynkin, Anton V., Černý, Karel & Huang, Si-Yao, 2025, On the generic assignment of the taxa placed in the Oriental footman-moth genus Teulisna with the description of three new genera, one subgenus and eighteen new species, Ecologica Montenegrina 88, pp. 104-163.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/02_EREBIDAE/02_ARCTIINAE/04_Lithosiinae/14_Teulisna/Teulisna%20karena/Teulisna%20karena.htm [accessed 16 May 2021]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/540956-Teulisna-karena
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Teulisna karena Černý, 2009 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/teulisna-karena, accessed 2025/09/14.