Subspecies in India
Taxonomic Information
Calliteara Butler, 1881 species known from India.
Calliteara angulata (Hampson, 1895). Nepal, NE, Himalaya.
Calliteara aphrasta (Collenette, 1938)
Calliteara cerebosa (Swinhoe, 1903). NW Himalaya.
Calliteara cerigoides (Walker, 1862). S. India.
Calliteara complicata (Walker, 1865). N India, Nepal.
Calliteara himalayana Kishida, 1994. Nepal
Calliteara horsfieldii (Saunders, 1851). Nepal, Himalayas.
Calliteara grotei (Moore, 1859). India.
Calliteara strigata (Moore, 1879).
Calliteara varia (Walker, 1855). Sikkim.
Calliteara taiwana (Wileman, 1910).
Calliteara siniaevi Trofimova, Shovkoon & Witt, 2016. India: Nagaland.
Calliteara cinctata (Moore, 1879). Darjeeling, Nepal. Now placed in Dasychira.
Calliteara postfusca (Swinhoe, 1895). NE India. Now placed in Dasychira.
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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| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 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 2024. Calliteara grotei (Moore, 1859) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/calliteara-grotei, accessed 2024/04/25.