Taxonomic Information
Euproctis Hübner, [1819] species from the Indian subcontinent (provisional).
Euproctis albescens Swinhoe, 1903. India: Sikkim; Bhutan.
Euproctis albodentata (Moore, 1879). India: NW Himalaya; Myanmar.
Euproctis albopunctata Hampson, [1893]. India: Sikkim.
Euproctis antiphates Hampson, [1893]. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills); Nepal.
Euproctis bifascia Hampson, 1891. India: Nilgiris, Karnataka, Kerala.
Euproctis bimaculata Walker, 1855. India: S. India; Sri Lanka.
Euproctis bipartita (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling); Nepal.
Euproctis brevivitta (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal.
Euproctis catapasta Collenette, 1951. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Euproctis cervina (Moore, 1877). India: Kashmir, West Bengal; Sri Lanka.
Euproctis citrina (Moore, 1877). India; Sri Lanka.
Euproctis discinota Moore, 1877. India: Andaman Is.
Euproctis dispersa (Moore, 1879).India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Euproctis divisa Walker, 1855. N. India.
Euproctis endoplagia Hampson, 1897. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Euproctis erecta (Moore, 1879). S. India.
Euproctis euproctiformis (Strand, 1915). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Euproctis flava (Fabricius, 1775).India: N. India.
Euproctis flavicosta Hampson, 1900. Sikkim.
Euproctis fraterna (Moore, [1883]). Sri Lanka.
Euproctis fulvinigra Hampson, 1905. India: Sikkim.
Euproctis fulvipuncta Hampson, [1893]. India; Sri Lanka.
Euproctis hagna Collenette, 1938. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling).
Euproctis hampsoni Swinhoe, 1903. India: Nilgiris.
Euproctis howra (Moore, 1879). India: Andaman Is, S. India.
Euproctis illanta Swinhoe, 1891. India: Maharashtra.
Euproctis inconcisa (Walker, 1865). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling); Nepal.
Euproctis khasi Collenette, 1938. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Euproctis laniata Hampson, 1904. India: Palni Hils, Tamil Nadu.
Euproctis latifascia Walker, 1855. India: Himachal Pradesh; Nepal; Bhutan.
Euproctis lativitta (Moore, 1879). India: E. Himalaya.
Euproctis leithiana (Moore, 1879). India: Maharashtra ([Bombay] Mumbai), Canara, Karnataka, Kerala.
Euproctis lunata Walker, 1855. India: N. India, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu.
Euproctis luteifascia (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris.
Euproctis mackwoodi Collenette, 1938. Sri Lanka.
Euproctis macrostigma Hampson, 1905. India: Goa (Karwar).
Euproctis madana Moore, 1859. India: Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal.
Euproctis magna (Swinhoe, 1891). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Euproctis malaisei Collenette, 1960. Myanmar.
Euproctis mirabilis Swinhoe, 1903. India: Andaman Is.
Euproctis marginata (Moore, 1879). India: India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Nagaland; Nepal.
Euproctis negrita Hampson, [1893]. India: Sikkim.
Euproctis oreosaura (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Meghalaya.
Euproctis pelona (Swinhoe, 1891). India: Meghalaya.
Euproctis percnogaster Collenette, 1938.India.
Euproctis plagiata (Walker, 1855). India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, West Bengal; Nepal (TL).
Euproctis postica Walker, 1865. India; Nepal.
Euproctis rana Moore, [1866]. Bangladesh.
Euproctis sagroides (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris.
Euproctis semisignata (Walker, 1865). India: S. India.
Euproctis semivitta Moore, 1879. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Euproctis stenosacca Collenette, 1951. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Euproctis stigmatifera (Hampson, 1896). Bhutan.
Euproctis subfasciata (Walker, 1865). India: Sikkim, Assam.
Euproctis subfuscula (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiris.
Euproctis sulphurescens (Moore, 1888).India: Sikkim.
Euproctis unimacula (Moore, 1879). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Euproctis varia Walker, 1855. India: Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya.
Euproctis xanthoceps Hampson, 1910. Sri Lanka.
Euproctis xanthosticta Hampson, 1905. India: Goa (Karwar).
Euproctis xanthorrhoea (Kollar, 1848). India: Himalayas.
Euproctis varians (Walker, 1855). India; Nepal.
Euproctis venosa (Moore, 1879). India: Sikkim.
Euproctis virgo Swinhoe, 1903. Myanmar.
Euproctis virguncula Walker, 1855. India: Punjab.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 1 |
- Artaxa dispersa Moore, 1879; Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (1): 50, pl. 2, f. 6; TL: Darjiling. Text at https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/50/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/n326/mode/1up?view=theater
- Euproctis bidentata Hampson, 1897; J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 11 (2): 296; TL: Sikkim. Text at https://archive.org/details/journalofbombayn11189798bomb/page/296/mode/1up?view=theat
- Nygmia dispersa; Swinhoe, 1923, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (61): 64. Text at https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazine9111923lond/page/64/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 78, pl 81/26-27-28
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Pg. 10, Image 215.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1262969-Euproctis-dispersa
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Euproctis dispersa (Moore, 1879) – . 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/euproctis-dispersa, accessed 2025/08/12.