Taxonomic Information
Gynautocera Guérin-Méneville, 1831 species known from India.
Gynautocera papilionaria Guérin-Méneville, 1831. Myanmar; India: Kashmir, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Manipur.
Gynautocera fraterna (Moore, 1883). India: West Bengal (TL: Kolkata), Andhra Pradesh.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Gynautocera papilionaria Guérin-Meneville, 1831: Litsea monopetala (Lauraceae) (Smetacek et al. 2011).
- Gynautocera papilionaria Guérin-Méneville, 1831. Mag. Zool. Paris (Ins.) 1: 12.
- Chalcosia selene Kollar, [1844]; in Hügel, Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek 4: 463; TL: Caschmir
- 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 279, # 595, fg.186
- Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P. D. N. 2007. BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (website). http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=515327 [accessed 25 August 2015]
- Yen, S.H., Robinson, G.S. and Quicke, D.L., 2005. The phylogenetic relationships of Chalcosiinae (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Zygaenidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 143(2), pp.161-341.Fig. 48F for caterpillar. The caterpillar on the website differs slightly from that shown in Yen et al. 2005; possibly indiviual variation or a different instar.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Gynautocera papilionaria Guérin-Meneville, 1831 – . 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/gynautocera-papilionaria, accessed 2025/11/10.