Taxonomic Information
Artaxa Walker, 1855 species from India
Artaxa angulata (Matsumura, 1927)
Artaxa comparata (Walker, 1865)
Artaxa digramma (Boisduval, [1844])
Artaxa distracta Walker, 1865
Artaxa guttata Walker, 1855
Artaxa vitellina (Kollar, 1848)
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Gujarat | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
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| Punjab | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Artaxa guttata Walker, 1855: Terminalia phillyreifolia (Combretaceae), Barringtonia acutangula (Lecythidaceae), Carissa carandas (Apocynaceae), Jasminum (Oleaceae), Lagerstroemia indica (Lythraceae), Lantana camara (Lamiaceae), Maesa ramentacea (Primulaceae), Mallotus philippensis, Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae), Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae), Terminalia myriocarpa, Terminalia elliptica (Combretaceae), Ziziphus mauritiana (Rhamnaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010)
- Artaxa guttata Walker, 1855. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 4: 795; TL: Sylhet, Bangladesh. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso46brit/page/795/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig.Pg. 477, # 1077. Listed as Euproctis guttata.
- Nygmia flava Swinhoe, 1923. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (61): 63. Text at https://archive.org/details/annalsmagazine9111923lond/page/63/mode/1up?view=theater
- Euproctis guttata Collenette, 1934. Novit. Zool. 39: 143. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi39lond/page/143/mode/1up?view=theater
- Kaleka, A.P.S., 2012. Diversity of Tussock moths (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) on the Western Himalaya. Colemania, 31, pp.3-15.
- Sondhi, Y. & S. Sondhi. 2016. A partial checklist of moths (Lepidoptera) of Dehradun, Mussoorie and Devalsari in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(5): 8756–8776; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2814.8.5.8756-8776.Fig. [accessed 13 June 2021] 172.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/556271-Artaxa-guttata
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Artaxa guttata Walker, 1855 – . 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://mothsofindia.org/artaxa-guttata, accessed 2025/04/23.