Taxonomic Information
Calliteara Butler, 1881 species known from India.
Calliteara angulata (Hampson, 1895). India: NE Himalaya, Meghalaya; Nepal.
Calliteara aphrasta (Collenette, 1938). India.
Calliteara brunnescens (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh; Nepal; Bhutan.
Calliteara cerebosa (Swinhoe, 1903). India: NW Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh (TL: Solun, Shimla); Nepal.
Calliteara cerigoides (Walker, 1862). S. India, Kerala; Myanmar.
Calliteara cinctata (Moore, 1879). India: Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim; Nepal.
Calliteara complicata (Walker, 1865). India: North India, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Punjab, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal.
Calliteara grotei (Moore, 1859). India: N. India, Punjab, Uttarakhand, NW Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Maharashtra, Goa, Nilgiris, Kerala, Tamil Nadu.
Calliteara himalayana Kishida, 1994. Nepal.
Calliteara horsfieldii (Saunders, 1851). India: Himalaya, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Calliteara postfusca (Swinhoe, 1895). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand; Nepal.
Calliteara strigata (Moore, 1879). India: Meghalaya, Uttarakhand (TL: Mussoorie), Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal.
Calliteara varia (Walker, 1855). India: Nagaland, West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal; Myanmar.
Calliteara taiwana (Wileman, 1910). India: Himachal Pradesh
Calliteara siniaevi Trofimova, Shovkoon & Witt, 2016. India: Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Calliteara cerigoides -
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Similar species: Calliteara horsfieldii (Saunders, 1851)
Diagnosis (MOB in Calliteara horsfleldii). Males occur in two forms: with uniform grey forewings or with forewings darker grey distal to the antemedial. The antemedial is strongly curved with the concavity basad, whereas in the next species, cerigoides Walker, which also has a yellow hindwing, it is angled distad, and has a bluish grey band associated with it. The female of horsfleldii is mainly white, with only faint markings on the forewing, whereas cerigoides has the forewing heavily irrorated and fasciated with brown, and there is a yellowish tinge to the hindwing.
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| Total | 1 |
- Janassa cerigoides Walker, 1862. J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 6:135. TL: Sarawk, Borneo. Text at https://archive.org/details/journalofproceed06linn/page/135/mode/1up?view=theater (male)
- Orgyia cerigoides; Swinhoe, 1923, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (64): 403. Text at https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazine9111923lond/page/403/mode/1up?view=theater
- Dasychira cerigoides; Collenette, 1932, Novit. Zool. 38: 87. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi38lond/page/87/mode/1up?view=theater (female)
- Holloway, J. D. Moths of Borneo, Part 5, pg. 36, pl. 4/3 (male).
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-5/orgyiini/orgyiini_5_2.php#:~:text=It%20is%20earth%2Dbrown%2C%20more,parasitism%20appears%20to%20be%20high).
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Calliteara cerigoides (Walker 1862) – . 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/Calliteara-cerigoides, accessed 2026/02/15.