Artaxa guttata Walker, 1855 -

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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West Bengal1
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Artaxa guttata Walker, 1855: Terminalia phillyreifolia (Combretaceae), Barringtonia acutangula (Lecythidaceae), Carissa carandas (Apocynaceae), Jasminum spp. (Oleaceae), Lagerstroemia indica (Lythraceae), Lantana camara (Lamiaceae), Maesa ramentacea (Primulaceae), Mallotus philippensis, Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae), Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae), Terminalia myriocarpa, Terminalia elliptica (Combretaceae), Ziziphus mauritiana (Rhamnaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010). 
  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. Euproctis guttata Collenette, 1934. Novit. Zool. 39: 143. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi39lond/page/143/mode/1up?view=theater
  5. Kaleka, A.P.S., 2012. Diversity of Tussock moths (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) on the Western Himalaya. Colemania, 31, pp.3-15.
  6. 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. 
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-5/nygmiini/nygmiini_5_1.php
  10. 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 2025/08/15.