Taxonomic Information
Cricula Walker, 1855 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Cricula agria Jordan, 1909. India: Tamil Nadu (Travancore: TL).
Cricula gandhii Naumann & Löffler, 2013. Arunachal Pradesh (Rapum, near Along: TL).
Cricula trifenestrata (Helfer, 1837). India, Nepal, Bhutan.
Cricula trifenestrata andamanica Jordan, 1909. Andaman Is.
Cricula tremula Naumann & Löffler, 2013. Myanmar.
Cricula andrei Jordan, 1909. India: Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh; Bhutan.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Cricula spp. -
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
- Jordan, K. 1909. On the Species of Cricula (Saturniidae) Novit. zool. 16 (2) : 300-332.
- Naumann, S. and Löffler, S., 2010. Notes on the Asian genus Cricula Walker, 1855, with description of new species (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, Markt leuthen, Supplement, 2, pp.1-24.
- Naumann, S. and Löffler, S., 2013. Two new species of the genus Cricula Walker, 1855 from Myanmar and India, with synonymic notes (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, 33(4), pp.177-184.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Cricula spp. Walker, 1855 – . 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/cricula-spp, accessed 2025/11/11.