Taxonomic Information
Nygmia Hübner, [1820] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Nygmia icilia (Stoll, [1790]). India: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand; Sri Lanka.
Nygmia marginata (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal; Nepal.
Nygmia plana (Walker, 1856). India: Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Andaman Is.; Nepal.
Nygmia staudingeri (Leech, [1889]). India: Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Nygmia uniformis (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal; Nepal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Total | 1 |
- Chaerotriche staudingeri Leech, 1888, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1888: 624, pl. 31/8. TL: Yokohama, Japan. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91192#page/720/mode/1up
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 56/3.
- Wang, H., Wahlberg, N., Holloway, J.D., Bergsten, J., Fan, X., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Wen, L., Wang, M. and Nylin, S., 2015. Molecular phylogeny of Lymantriinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Erebidae) inferred from eight gene regions. Cladistics, 31(6), pp.579-592. For generic placement.
- Yoshitomi, H. and Ozaki, K., 2019. Host plant and larva of Nygmia staudingeri (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 25(2), pp.129-131.
- Euproctis staudingeri; Sondhi et al. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Pg. 10, Image 215.
- Euproctis staudingeri; Joshi, R., Zahiri, R., Banerjee, D. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5635(1), pp.1-247. Pg. 164.
- http://molbiol.ru/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t180517-450.html
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=202443
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/702456-Euproctis-staudingeri
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Nygmia staudingeri (Leech, [1889]) – . 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/index.php/nygmia-staudingeri, accessed 2025/11/19.

