Subspecies in India
Taxonomic Information
Calliteara Butler, 1881 species known from India.
Calliteara angulata (Hampson, 1895). India: NE Himalaya, Meghalaya; Nepal.
Calliteara aphrasta (Collenette, 1938). India.
Calliteara brunnescens (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh; Nepal; Bhutan.
Calliteara cerebosa (Swinhoe, 1903). India: NW Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh (TL: Solun, Shimla); Nepal.
Calliteara cerigoides (Walker, 1862). S. India, Kerala; Myanmar.
Calliteara cinctata (Moore, 1879). India: Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim; Nepal.
Calliteara complicata (Walker, 1865). India: North India, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Punjab, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal.
Calliteara grotei (Moore, 1859). India: N. India, Punjab, Uttarakhand, NW Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Maharashtra, Goa, Nilgiris, Kerala, Tamil Nadu.
Calliteara himalayana Kishida, 1994. Nepal.
Calliteara horsfieldii (Saunders, 1851). India: Himalaya, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Calliteara postfusca (Swinhoe, 1895). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand; Nepal.
Calliteara strigata (Moore, 1879). India: Meghalaya, Uttarakhand (TL: Mussoorie), Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal.
Calliteara varia (Walker, 1855). India: Nagaland, West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal; Myanmar.
Calliteara taiwana (Wileman, 1910). India: Himachal Pradesh
Calliteara siniaevi Trofimova, Shovkoon & Witt, 2016. India: Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram.
Conservation and Special status
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
Calliteara grotei (Moore, 1859): Acacia dealbata, Acacia nilotica, Moullava spicata (Fabaceae), Psidium guajava, Syzygium aqueum (Myrtaceae),Lagerstroemia speciosa (Lythraceae), Mallotus philippensis (Euphorbiaceae),Malus pumila (Rosaceae), Machilus gamblei (Lauraceae), Polygonum sp. (Polygonaceae), Quercus incana (Fagaceae), Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae), Tectona grandis (Lamiaceae), Terminalia crenulata (Combretaceae), Populus sp. (Salicaceae) (Robinson et al., 2010).
- OD: Dasychira grotei Moore, 1859 in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. Ins. Mus. Nat. East India House 2: 338 at http://archive.org/stream/catalogueoflepid02east#page/338/mode/1up
- 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. Fig 309, Pg. 448, # 999 as Dasychira horsfieldi.
- 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 107.
- http://insecta.pro/gallery/61119
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/205293-Calliteara-grotei
Other Notes
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Calliteara grotei (Moore, 1859) – . 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/calliteara-grotei, accessed 2026/03/18.