Taxonomic Information
Hindothosea Holloway, 1987 species known from India.
Hindothosea nilgirica (Hampson, 1891). India: S. India (Nilgiris).
Hindothosea cervina (Moore, 1877). India: Kerala, Maharashtra, NE India; Sri Lanka.
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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| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
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| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Thosea cervina Moore, 1877; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 20 (118): 348; TL: NE.India. Text at https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazineof4201877lond/page/348/mode/1up?view=theater. Very minimal description.
- Thosea duplexa Moore, [1883]; Lepid. Ceylon 2 (2): 130; TL: Ceylon. Text at https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraofcey02moor/page/130/mode/1up?view=theater
- Thosea cervina Moore, 1877. Lepid. Ceylon 2 (2): 130; Pl. 126/2 & 2a. Text at https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraofcey02moor/page/130/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, 527pp. Thosea cervina, page 379.
- Thosea duplexa; Hering, 1931, Gross-Schmett. Vol. 10: 712, Pl. 89a. Text at https://archive.org/details/diegrossschmette10seit/page/712/mode/1up?view=theater Plate at https://archive.org/details/diegrossschmette10seit_0/page/89/mode/1up?view=theater
- Holloway, Cock & Desmier de Chenon. 1987. Systematic account of South-east Asian pest Limacodidae Slug & Nettle Caterpillars. Pg. 68. Available on ResearchGate
- Irungbam, J.S., M.S. Chib & A.V. Solovyev (2017). Moths of the family Limacodidae Duponchel, 1845 (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea) from Bhutan with six new generic and 12 new species records. Journal of Threatened Taxa 9(2): 9795–9813. Text at: https://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/2443
- Ahmad, J., Singh, N. and Solovyev, A.V., 2025. Taxonomic review of genus Iragoides Hering, 1931 (Zygaenoidea: Limacodidae) from India. Zootaxa, 5601(3), pp.581-588.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Hindothosea cervina (Moore, 1877) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/hindothosea-cervina, accessed 2025/11/22.