
Taxonomic Information
Artaxa Walker, 1855 species from India (Joshi et al, 2025).
Artaxa angulata (Matsumura, 1927). India; Myanmar; Sri Lanka.
Artaxa comparata (Walker, 1865). N. India.
Artaxa digramma (Boisduval, [1844]). India: Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Maharashtra, Manipur, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Artaxa distracta Walker, 1865. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Artaxa kanshireia (Wileman, 1910). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram.
Artaxa pseudoguttata N. Singh, 2019. India: Jharkhand.
Artaxa valmikiensis N. Singh, 2019. India: Bihar.
Artaxa vitellina (Kollar, 1848). India: Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh.
Artaxa guttata Walker, 1855 is probably a synonym of Artaxa digramma (Boisduval, [1844]) (Holloway, 1999; Kaleka et al, 2021; Joshi et al, 2025) as the genitalia in Kaleka et al. (2021) are identical. However, this needs further investigation and confirmation.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Total | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
- Artaxa guttata Walker, 1855. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 4: 795; TL: Sylhet, Bangladesh. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso46brit/page/795/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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. 477, # 1077. Listed as Euproctis guttata.
- Nygmia flava Swinhoe, 1923. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (61): 63. Text at https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazine9111923lond/page/63/mode/1up?view=theater
- Euproctis guttata Collenette, 1934. Novit. Zool. 39: 143. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi39lond/page/143/mode/1up?view=theater
- Kaleka, A.P.S., 2012. Diversity of Tussock moths (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) on the Western Himalaya. Colemania, 31, pp.3-15.
- Sondhi, Y. & S. Sondhi. 2016. A partial checklist of moths (Lepidoptera) of Dehradun, Mussoorie and Devalsari in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(5): 8756–8776; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2814.8.5.8756-8776.Fig. [accessed 13 June 2021] 172.
- Kaleka, A.S., Singh, D. and Bali, G.P.K., 2021. Further studies on genus Artaxa Walker (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from India. Oriental Insects, 56(2), pp.198-212.
- Joshi, R., Zahiri, R., Banerjee, D. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5635(1), pp.1-247.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-5/nygmiini/nygmiini_5_1.php
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/556271-Artaxa-guttata
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Artaxa guttata Walker, 1855 – . 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/artaxa-guttata, accessed 2025/08/11.