Taxonomic Information
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
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Similar species: Anuga supraconstricta Yoshimoto, 1993
Anuga supraconstricta Yoshimoto, 1993; Tinea 13 (Suppl. 3): 43, pl. 42, f. 6; TL: Godavari
Similar to A. constricta Guenee in appearance, but larger. Forewing pale to dark gray, not tinged with brown; reniform thickly defined by black. A tornal creamy marking of hindwing conspicuous, its outer margin oblique and not reaching to vein 3.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 |
- Piada multiplicans Walker, 1858; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 15: 1747; TL: Canara. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1315brit/page/1747/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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. 390, #2256. Form multiplicans with larger ochreous anal patch FW.
- Anuga multiplicans; Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 42/5.
- Sondhi, Y., S. Sondhi, S. R. Pathour, & K. Kunte. 2018. Moth diversity (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of Shendurney and Ponmudi in Agastyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Kerala, India, with notes on new records. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 28(2). Image 149. Misidentified as Anuga constricta.
- Sondhi, S. 2024. Moths of India - A Field Guide. Published by Titli Trust, India, xii+280 pp. Pg. 206, Pl. 100/1. Misidentified as Anuga constricta.
- Joshi, R., Singh, N., Ahmad, J. & Farooqui, S.A., 2024. A Catalogue of Indian Euteliidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5448(2), pp.151-182.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201657-Anuga-multiplicans
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Anuga multiplicans (Walker, 1858) – . 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/anuga-multiplicans, accessed 2025/10/31.