Taxonomic Information
Arctornis Germar, 1810 species known from India:
Arctornis marginata (Moore, [1883]). S. India; Sri Lanka.
Arctornis comma (Hutton, 1865). India: Uttarakhand (TL: Dehradun); Nepal.
Arctornis cygna (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal, Meghalaya.
Arctornis diaphana (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Arctornis divisa (Walker, 1855). Bangladesh (TL: Sylhet).
Arctornis lactea (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Arctornis I-nigrum (Müller, 1764). Himalaya.
Arctornis opalina (Collenette, 1951). Myanmar.
Arctornis pellucida (Swinhoe, 1903). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Arctornis rutila (Fabricius, 1781). India?
Arctornis sericea (Moore, 1877). India: Andaman Is. (TL: Port Blair).
Arctornis silhetica (Walker, 1865). Bangladesh (TL: Sylhet).
Arctornis submarginata (Walker, 1855). India: West Bengal; Bangladesh (TL: Sylhet).
Arctornis subvitrea (Walker, 1865). India.
Arctornis xuthocraspeda Collenette, 1938. India: Assam (TL).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Arctornis l-nigrum -
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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 | |||||||||||||
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Phalaena l-nigrum. Müller, 1764. Fauna Insectorum Fridrichsdalina sive Methodica Descriptio Insectorum Agri Fridrichsdalensis cum Characteribus Genericis et Specificis, Nominibus Trivialibus, Locis Natalibus, Iconibus Allegatis, Novsque Pluribus Speciebus Additis Fauna Ins. Fridr.: 96pp. Page 40.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 54/20.
- Wang, Wahlberg, Holloway, Bergsten, Fan, Janzen, Hallwachs, Wen, Wang & Nylin, 2015
Molecular phylogeny of Lymantriinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Erebidae) inferred from eight gene regions Cladistics 31 (6) : 579-592. Page 583. - https://www.pieris.ch/seiten/main.php?page=art&art=lym_lnigrum#top [Accessed 27 Jan 2023]
- https://www.leps.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesPages/ArctoLnigr.htm (With several detailed images of lifecycle and other notes) [Accessed 27 Jan 2023]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Arctornis l-nigrum (Müller, 1764) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/arctornis-l-nigrum, accessed 2025/10/29.