Taxonomic Information
List of Amerila Walker, 1855 species known from India.
Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773), India (West Bengal, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Throughout India, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Kerala).
Amerila eugenia (Fabricius, 1794), India (Central and South India, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh).
Amerila omissa (Rothschild, 1910), India (NW Himalayas, Assam, Meghalaya, NE Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh).
Amerila rhodopa Walker, 1864, India (Sikkim, Nagaland, Southern India, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka).
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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| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- Noctua eugenia Fabricius, 1794. Ent. Syst. 3 (2): 19-20. Text at https://archive.org/details/entomologiasyst3fabr/page/19/mode/1up?view=theater (French)
- Rhodogastria astreas; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3: 504. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid03brituoft/page/504/mode/1up?view=theater
- Rhodogastria eugenia; Hampson, 1920, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. (Suppl.) 2: 529, pl. 69, f. 19. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid02brit/page/529/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid12brit/page/n304/mode/2up?view=theater
- Singh, N. and Singh, J., 2012. Genitalic studies of Amerila eugenia (Fabricius)(Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) from Karnataka, India. Journal of threatened taxa, pp.2398-2401.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1, pp 1-205. Nature Books of India, New Delhi. pg. 57-58.
- Biswas, O., Chakraborti, U., Roy, S., Modak, B.K., Shah, S.K. and Panja, B., 2016. First record of Amerila eugenia (Fabricius, 1794)[Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae] from Eastern India. Entomology and Applied Science Letters, 3(3), pp.6-9. Fig. 2.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Amerila eugenia (Fabricius, 1794) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.83. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/amerila-eugenia, accessed 2025/03/18.