
Taxonomic Information
Euproctis Hübner, [1819] species from the Indian subcontinent (provisional).
Euproctis albescens Swinhoe, 1903. India: Sikkim; Bhutan.
Euproctis albodentata (Moore, 1879). India: NW Himalaya; Myanmar.
Euproctis albopunctata Hampson, [1893]. India: Sikkim.
Euproctis antiphates Hampson, [1893]. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills); Nepal.
Euproctis bifascia Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris, Karnataka, Kerala.
Euproctis bimaculata Walker, 1855. India: S. India; Sri Lanka.
Euproctis bipartita (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling); Nepal.
Euproctis brevivitta (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal.
Euproctis catapasta Collenette, 1951. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Euproctis cervina (Moore, 1877). India: Kashmir, West Bengal; Sri Lanka.
Euproctis citrina (Moore, 1877). India; Sri Lanka.
Euproctis discinota Moore, 1877. India: Andaman Is.
Euproctis dispersa (Moore, 1879). India: Sikkim.
Euproctis divisa Walker, 1855. N. India.
Euproctis endoplagia Hampson, 1897. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Euproctis erecta (Moore, 1879). S. India.
Euproctis euproctiformis (Strand, 1915). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Euproctis flava (Fabricius, 1775).India: N. India.
Euproctis flavicosta Hampson, 1900. Sikkim.
Euproctis fraterna (Moore, [1883]). Sri Lanka.
Euproctis fulvinigra Hampson, 1905. India: Sikkim.
Euproctis fulvipuncta Hampson, [1893]. India; Sri Lanka.
Euproctis hagna Collenette, 1938. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Euproctis hampsoni Swinhoe, 1903. India: Nilgiris.
Euproctis howra (Moore, 1879). India: Andaman Is, S. India.
Euproctis illanta Swinhoe, 1891. India: Maharashtra.
Euproctis inconcisa (Walker, 1865). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling); Nepal.
Euproctis khasi Collenette, 1938. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Euproctis laniata Hampson, 1904. India: Palni Hils, Tamil Nadu.
Euproctis latifascia Walker, 1855. India: Himachal Pradesh; Nepal; Bhutan.
Euproctis lativitta (Moore, 1879). India: E. Himalaya.
Euproctis leithiana (Moore, 1879). India: Maharashtra ([Bombay] Mumbai), Canara, Karnataka, Kerala.
Euproctis lunata Walker, 1855. India: N. India, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu.
Euproctis luteifascia (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris.
Euproctis mackwoodi Collenette, 1938. Sri Lanka.
Euproctis macrostigma Hampson, 1905. India: Goa (Karwar).
Euproctis madana Moore, 1859. India: Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal.
Euproctis magna (Swinhoe, 1891). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Euproctis malaisei Collenette, 1960. Myanmar.
Euproctis mirabilis Swinhoe, 1903. India: Andaman Is.
Euproctis marginata (Moore, 1879). India: India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Nagaland; Nepal.
Euproctis negrita Hampson, [1893]. India: Sikkim.
Euproctis oreosaura (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Meghalaya.
Euproctis pelona (Swinhoe, 1891). India: Meghalaya.
Euproctis percnogaster Collenette, 1938.India.
Euproctis plagiata (Walker, 1855). India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, West Bengal; Nepal (TL).
Euproctis postica Walker, 1865. India; Nepal.
Euproctis rana Moore, [1866]. Bangladesh.
Euproctis sagroides (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris.
Euproctis semisignata (Walker, 1865). India: S. India.
Euproctis semivitta Moore, 1879. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Euproctis stenosacca Collenette, 1951. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Euproctis stigmatifera (Hampson, 1896). Bhutan.
Euproctis subfasciata (Walker, 1865). India: Sikkim, Assam.
Euproctis subfuscula (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris.
Euproctis sulphurescens (Moore, 1888).India: Sikkim.
Euproctis unimacula (Moore, 1879). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Euproctis varia Walker, 1855. India: Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya.
Euproctis xanthoceps Hampson, 1910. Sri Lanka.
Euproctis xanthosticta Hampson, 1905. India: Goa (Karwar).
Euproctis xanthorrhoea (Kollar, 1848). India: Himalayas.
Euproctis varians (Walker, 1855). India; Nepal.
Euproctis venosa (Moore, 1879). India: Sikkim.
Euproctis virgo Swinhoe, 1903. Myanmar.
Euproctis virguncula Walker, 1855. India: Punjab.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | 4 | ||||||||||||
West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
Total | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
- Euproctis lunata Walker, 1855. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 4: 837; TL: N.India. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso46brit/page/837/mode/1up?view=theater
- Euproctis lunata Walker, 1855. Butler, 1881, Ill. Het. 5, pg. 50, pl. 139/9.
- Nygmia lunata Swinhoe, 1922, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 10 (58): 482. Text at https://archive.org/details/ser9annalsmagazi10londuoft/page/482/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. 472, # 1059.
- 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. [accessed 27 July 2021] Image 174.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Euproctis lunata 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/euproctis-lunata, accessed 2025/08/11.