Taxonomic Information
Nygmia Hübner, [1820] species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Nygmia icilia (Stoll, [1790]). India; Sri Lanka.
Nygmia marginata (Moore, 1879). West Bengal; Nepal.
Nygmia plana (Walker, 1856). Himalayas, Andamans; Nepal.
Nygmia staudingeri (Leech, [1889]). Arunachal Pradesh.
Nygmia uniformis (Moore, 1879). West Bengal; Nepal.
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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| Meghalaya | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Nygmia plana (Walker, 1856): Loranthus spp. (Loranthaceae), Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- Euproctis plana Walker, 1856. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, Vol 7, pg 1731 (male). Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso07brit/page/1731/mode/1up?view=theater
- Chaerotriche immaculata Butler, 1881. Illustration of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum Part 5, Pg. 52, Pl. 89, fig 14 (female). Text at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft05brituoft/page/52/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft05brituoft/page/n110/mode/1up?view=theater
- Euproctis plana in 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. 479, # 1083.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl 57/5.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201821-Nygmia-plana
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Nygmia plana (Walker, 1856) – . 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/nygmia-plana, accessed 2025/04/23.