Mahoba irrorata Moore, 1879 -

Taxonomic Information

Mahoba Moore, 1879 species known from India.
Mahoba plagidotata (Walker, [1863]). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Nagaland; Nepal. 
Mahoba irrorata Moore, 1879. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh11
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal1
Total111
  1. 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, pg 455, # 1017 as Mardara irrorata.
  2. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992-2000. Moths of Nepal.  TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. pl. 55:3.
  3. Moore, F. 1879. Descriptions of new Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the collection of the late Mr. W.S. Atkinson pg. 52
  4. thaibugs.com http://www.thaibugs.com/wp-content/gallery/moths-lymantrids/mardara-irrorata.jpg [accessed 10 August 2016] as Mardara irrorata.

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Mahoba irrorata Moore, 1879 – . 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/mahoba-irrorata, accessed 2025/04/23.