Taxonomic Information
List of Churinga Moore, 1878 known from India.
Churinga beema (Moore, 1865), India (West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh).
Churinga metaxantha (Hampson, 1895), India (Uttarakhand, Sikkim).
Churinga rufifrons Moore, 1878, India (Sikkim, NW Himalayas, West Bengal, Uttarakhand).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Churinga beema -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 |
- OD: Lithosia beema Moore, 1865. Proc. Zool. Soc.Lond., 1(3): 798. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90412#page/910/mode/1up
- 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 67, # 1313.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 40/2,
- Kishida, Y., 1998. A new species of the genus Churinga (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae, Lithosiinae) from Thailand. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 49(4): 242–244.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1, pp 1-205. Nature Books of India, New Delhi. Pg. 173.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Churinga beema (Moore, 1865) – . 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/churinga-beema, accessed 2025/04/23.