Taxonomic Information
Aergina Solovyev, 2014 species known from India.
Aergina hilaris (Westwood, 1848). Indian subcontinent: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand
Aergina laeta (Westwood, 1848). Sri Lanka.
Aergina retracta (Walker, 1865). S. India; Sri Lanka.
Aergina fumosa (Swinhoe, 1889). S. India: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka.
Aergina mirza (Swinhoe, 1890). Myanmar, India: Kerala.
Aergina paeera (Hampson, 1897). Sri Lanka.
Aergina liharis (Rose, 2004). India: Punjab.
Numerous species re-classified from Parasa to Aergina by Solovyev (2014).
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Throughout India and Sri Lanka. (Hampson, [1893]).
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| Total | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
- Limacodes hilaris Westwood, 1848. The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology: 50, Pl. 24. fig. 3. TL: “central India”. Holotype: female (HDOU).
- Parasa hockingii Moore, 1888. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 403. TL: “Kangra Valley (3000 feet)” [India]. Lectotype: female (BMNH).
- Parasa argalea West, 1937. Annals and Magazine of natural History 10 (10): 80, pl. II: fig. 7. TL: “India, Jubbulpore”. Holotype: female (BMNH).
- 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 389, # 863. Dist: throughout India.
- Smetacek, P. 2008. Moths recorded from different elevation in Nainital district, Kumaon Himalaya, India. Bionotes 10(1):5 -15.
- Gurule, S & S. M. Nikam. 2013. The moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of northern Maharashtra: a preliminary checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(12): 4693–4713; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2555.4693-713. Image no 5.
- Solovyev A. V. 2014, Parasa Moore auct.: phylogenetic review of the complex from the Palaearctic and Indomalayan regions (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Proc. Mus. Witt Munich 1. Munich– Vilnius, 240 p. Re-classified genus as Aergina. Listed Parasa hockingii and Parasa argalea as synonyms of A. hilaris.
- Katewa, A. and Pathania, P.C., 2019. Genitalic Studies of Four Limacodid Species (Limacodidae: Lepidoptera) Including the Description of a New Species from Western Ghats, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 119(4), pp.373-380.
- Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P. D. N. 2007. BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (website). http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_TaxonPage?taxid=646377 as Aergina hilaris [accessed 31 August 2105]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Aergina hilaris (Westwood, 1848) – . 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/aergina-hilaris, accessed 2025/12/28.