Nygmia staudingeri (Leech, [1889]) -

Taxonomic Information

Nygmia Hübner, [1820] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Nygmia icilia (Stoll, [1790]). India: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand; Sri Lanka.
Nygmia marginata (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal; Nepal. 
Nygmia plana (Walker, 1856). India: Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Andaman Is.; Nepal.
Nygmia staudingeri (Leech, [1889]). India: Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal. 
Nygmia uniformis (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal; Nepal.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
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  1. Chaerotriche staudingeri Leech, 1888, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1888: 624, pl. 31/8. TL: Yokohama, Japan. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91192#page/720/mode/1up
  2. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 56/3.
  3. Wang, H., Wahlberg, N., Holloway, J.D., Bergsten, J., Fan, X., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Wen, L., Wang, M. and Nylin, S., 2015. Molecular phylogeny of Lymantriinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Erebidae) inferred from eight gene regions. Cladistics, 31(6), pp.579-592. For generic placement. 
  4. Yoshitomi, H. and Ozaki, K., 2019. Host plant and larva of Nygmia staudingeri (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 25(2), pp.129-131.
  5. Euproctis staudingeri; Sondhi et al. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Pg. 10, Image 215. 
  6. Euproctis staudingeri; Joshi, R., Zahiri, R., Banerjee, D. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5635(1), pp.1-247. Pg. 164. 
  7. http://molbiol.ru/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t180517-450.html
  8. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=202443 
  9. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/702456-Euproctis-staudingeri

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Nygmia staudingeri (Leech, [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/nygmia-staudingeri, accessed 2025/08/17.