Taxonomic Information
Spilarctia Butler, 1875 species known from India.
Spilarctia bifascia Hampson, 1891. India (South India).
Spilarctia casigneta (Kollar, [1844]). India: NW Himalayas, West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris) Meghalaya, Kerala.
Spilarctia castanea Hampson, 1893. India: Maharashtra; Sri Lanka.
Spilarctia comma (Walker, 1856). India: NW Himalayas, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
Spilarctia coorgensis Kirti & Gill, 2010. India: Kerala, Karnataka.
Spilarctia dalbergiae Moore, 1888. India: Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh.
Spilarctia eldorado (Rothschild, 1910). India: Meghalaya.
Spilarctia gopara (Moore, 1859). India: Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya.
Spilarctia irregularis (Rothschild, 1910). India: Sikkim, West Bengal.
Spilarctia leopardina (Kollar, [1844]). India: Indian Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
Spilarctia melanostigma (Erschoff, 1872). India: North India including Ladakh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland.
Spilarctia mona (Swinhoe, 1885). India: Maharashtra, Meghalaya.
Spilarctia montana (Guerin–Meneville, 1843). India: Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris), Punjab, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh.
Spilarctia obliqua (Walker, 1855), India: Throughout India.
Spilarctia punctata (Moore, 1859).India: Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, West Bengal, Uttarakhand.
Spilarctia rubilinea (Moore, 1865). India: Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya.
Spilarctia sagittifera Moore, 1888. India: Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim.
Spilarctia tamangi (Thomas, 1994). India: Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal.
Spilarctia tigrina (Moore, 1879). India: Tamil Nadu.
Spilarctia todara (Moore, 1872). India: Kerala, Tamil Nadu.
Spilarctia xanthogaster (Thomas, 1994). India: Meghalaya, Assam.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Spilosoma obliqua Walker, 1855; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 3: 679 ♂ (not ♀); TL: N.India. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimens13brit/page/679/mode/1up
- Spilosoma suffusa Walker, 1855; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 3: 677; TL: Punjab. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimens13brit/page/677/mode/1up
- Spilosoma dentilinea Moore, 1872; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1872 (2): 573; TL: Sikkim. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen72zool/page/573/mode/1up
- Kirti, J.S. and Gill, N.S., 2010. Studies on external genitalia of seven Indian species of the genus Spilarctia Butler (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae) alongwith the description of a new species. Journal of threatened taxa, pp.948-960. Pg. 955, Fig. 5.
- Spilarctia obliqua; Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1. Nature Books of India, New Delhi, 205 pp. Pg 47.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/326321-Spilosoma-obliqua
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Spilarctia obliqua (Walker, 1855) – . 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/spilarctia-obliqua, accessed 2026/03/01.