Taxonomic Information
Mahanta Moore, 1879 species known from India.
Mahanta quadrilinea Moore, 1879. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal.
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Mahanta leworthyi Holloway, 1986 which is extralimital, and can best be told apart by genitalia. Many other extralimital con-geners also best told apart by genitalia.
http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=379309,
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 1 |
- Mahanta quadrilinea Moore, 1879. Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (1): 78, pl. 3, f. 20. TL: Darjiling. Text at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4824346#page/319/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. Pg. 401, # 899.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=260946
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 39/30.
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Mahanta quadrilinea Moore, 1879 – . 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/index.php/mahanta-quadrilinea, accessed 2026/03/24.