Subspecies in India
Anuga Guenée, 1852 and Mimanuga Warren, 1913 species known from India and Nepal.
Anuga constricta Guenée, 1852. India: Central India, Andaman Islands, Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris), Kerala, Uttarakhand.
Anuga multiplicans (Walker, 1858). India: Karnataka (TL: “Canara”), Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim; Nepal; Myanmar.
Anuga supraconstricta Yoshimoto, 1993. Nepal.
Anuga insuffusa Warren, 1914: India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Mimanuga lunulata (Moore, [1868]). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Placement as Mimanuga lunulata (Moore, [1868]) needs confirmation. Many authors still place this as Anuga lunulata [Moore, 1868] (See notes in Joshi et al, 2024:155).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Mimanuga lunulata -
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| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Anuga lunulata Moore, 1867 [1868]. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p62. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29533446#page/84/mode/1up. TL: West Bengal.
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg. 389-90, # 2257. Listed as Anuga lunulata.
- Seitz, A. 1914. The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Vol 3, pg 288 as Mimanuga lunulata.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 43, Pl. 42/11.
- Shubhalaxmi, V. 2018. Birdwing Field Guide to Indian Moths, 1st Edition. Birdwing Publishers, India, 461pp. Pg 409. Lists as Mimanuga lunulata.
- Joshi, R., Singh, N., Ahmad, J. & Farooqui, S.A., 2024. A Catalogue of Indian Euteliidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5448(2), pp.151-182.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Mimanuga lunulata (Moore, [1868]) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/mimanuga-lunulata, accessed 2025/08/18.