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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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 3 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 4 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Euproctis lunata Walker, 1855: Vachellia nilotica (Fabaceae), Anacardium occidentale, Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae), Anacardiaceae, Cynodon dactylon, Sorghum halepense, Zea mays (Poaceae), Carissa carandas (Apocynaceae), Cinnamomum camphora (Lauraceae), Erythrina fusca, Erythrina variegata, Medicago sativa, Sesbania grandiflora, Vigna unguiculata (Fabaceae), Gossypium (Malvaceae), Morinda citrifolia (Rubiaceae), Morus (Moraceae), Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Rosa (Rosaceae), Tamarix gallica (Tamaricaceae)?, Terminalia elliptica (Combretaceae), Ziziphus mauritiana, Ziziphus jujuba (Rhamnaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010)
- Euproctis lunata Walker, 1855. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 4: 837; TL: N.India. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso46brit/page/837/mode/1up?view=theater
- Euproctis lunata Walker, 1855. Butler, 1881, Ill. Het. 5, pg. 50, pl. 139/9.
- Nygmia lunata Swinhoe, 1922, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 10 (58): 482. Text at https://archive.org/details/ser9annalsmagazi10londuoft/page/482/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. 472, # 1059.
- 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. [accessed 27 July 2021] Image 174.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Euproctis lunata 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/euproctis-lunata, accessed 2025/04/23.