Taxonomic Information
Aergina Solovyev, 2014 species known from India.
Aergina hilaris (Westwood, 1848). Indian subcontinent: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand
Aergina laeta (Westwood, 1848). Sri Lanka.
Aergina retracta (Walker, 1865). S. India; Sri Lanka.
Aergina fumosa (Swinhoe, 1889). S. India: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka.
Aergina mirza (Swinhoe, 1890). Myanmar, India: Kerala.
Aergina paeera (Hampson, 1897). Sri Lanka.
Aergina liharis (Rose, 2004). India: Punjab.
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Parasa fumosa Swinhoe, 1889. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. , 1899: 408, Pl. 43/12. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96894#page/530/mode/1up
- 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. 390, # 871. Description provided by Hampson is actually that of Parasa fumosa and not Parasa herbifera.
- Dudgeon, G. C., H. J. Elwes, & G. F. Hampson. 1900. A Catalogue of the Heterocera of Sikkim and Bhutan. Part VIII. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. v.13:258 - 269 Plate III. Pg. 263 for Parasa herbifera.
- Solovyev A. V. 2014, Parasa Moore auct.: phylogenetic review of the complex from the Palaearctic and Indomalayan regions (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Proc. Mus. Witt Munich 1. Munich– Vilnius, 240 p. Re-classified genus as Aergina.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Aergina fumosa (Swinhoe, 1889) – . 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/aergina-fumosa, accessed 2025/12/06.