Taxonomic Information
Spilosoma Curtis, 1825, species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Spilosoma erythrozona (Kollar, [1844]).India: North West Himalayas, Kashmir, Meghalaya.
Spilosoma lubricipedum (Linnaeus, 1758). India: North West Himalayas, Sikkim.
Spilosoma punctaria Stoll, (1782). India: Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Nagaland.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- Spilosoma Curtis. 1825. British Entomology; being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insecta found in Great Britain and Ireland: Containing coloured Figures from Nature of the Most Rare and Beautiful Species, an in Many Instances of the Plants Upon Which They are Found British Entomology. Plate. 92; TS: Bombyx menthastri Denis & Schiffermüller.
- Godman & Salvin. 1885. Biologia Centrali-Americana; or Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna of Mexico and Central America. Zoology. Lepidoptera. Heterocera Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Heterocera. Vol 1. Page 117.
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Moths. Vol 2. Page 3.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Spilosoma spp. Curtis, 1825 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/spilosoma-spp, accessed 2025/04/30.