Iragoides crispa (Swinhoe, 1889) -

Taxonomic Information

Iragoides Hering, 1931 species known from India.
Iragoides alessandri Ahmed, Singh & Solovyev, 2025. India: Arunachal Pradesh; Myanmar. 
Iragoides peiwangi Wu, Solovyev & Han, 2022. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram. 
Iragoides crispa (Swinhoe, 1890). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Nagaland; Nepal; Myanmar. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh6
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  1. Swinhoe, C. 1889. On new Indian Lepidoptera, chiefly Heterocera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1889 (4), 369–432, pls. 43–44. Pg. 409 as Miresa crispa Plate XLIII fg.4. Tl. Darjeeling.
  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, pg 383 #846 as Tetraphleps crispa
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). Moths of Nepal. pl 39/31
  4. Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P. D. N. 2007. BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (website).  http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=379330 [accessed 19 Oct 2015]
  5. Solovyev, A.V. & T.J. Witt. 2009. The Limacodidae of Vietnam. Entomofauna Supplement 16: 33-229. pdf page 177, pl.15:8.
  6. Ahmad, J., Singh, N. and Solovyev, A.V., 2025. Taxonomic review of genus Iragoides Hering, 1931 (Zygaenoidea: Limacodidae) from India. Zootaxa, 5601(3), pp.581-588.

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Iragoides crispa (Swinhoe, 1889) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/iragoides-crispa, accessed 2025/04/30.