Mahanta quadrilinea Moore, 1879 -

Taxonomic Information

Mahanta Moore, 1879 species known from India. 
Mahanta quadrilinea Moore, 1879. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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

http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/60_ZYGAENOIDEA/Limacodidae/20_Mahanta/Mahanta%20leworthyi/Mahanta%20leworthyi.htm

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand1
West Bengal
Total11
  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 
  2. 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.  
  3. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=260946
  4. 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.