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.
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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| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Calliteara spp. Butler, 1881 – . 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-spp, accessed 2026/02/15.