Taxonomic Information
Tarika Moore, 1878 species known from India and Nepal.
Tarika annapurna Volynkin, Saldaitis, Černý & Huang, 2023.
Tarika varana (Moore, [1866]). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Tarika varana -
Discrepancy in ID: in all the references mentioned the legs as pale yellow whereas it is much darker in the Gangotri individual.
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- Lithosia varana Moore, 1865. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865: 797. TL: Darjeeling. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen65zool/page/797/mode/1up?view=theater
- Tarika nivea Moore, 1878. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878: 15; Pl. 1/8. TL: Darjeeling. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen78zool/page/15/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen78zool/page/n41/mode/1up?view=theater
- Ilema varana; Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 2: 178. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid2brituoft/page/178/mode/1up?view=theater
- Tarika varana; Moore, 1878, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878: 15, pl. 1, f. 8;
- Kirti, J.S. and Joshi, R., 2013. Taxonomic studies on type species of genus Tarika Moore (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from India. Journal of Chemical, Biological and Physical Sciences (JCBPS), 3(3), p.2032.
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1. Nature Books of India, New Delhi, 205 pp. pg. 128-129.
- Singh, N. ,Joshi, R.,Kirti, J. S.,Bisht, S. S., & H. S. Param. 2021. A catalogue of Indian Arctiinae (Erebidae, Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 5058 (1): 001–118.
- Volynkin, A.V., Saldaitis, A., Černý, K. and Huang, S., 2023. Taxonomic review of the genus Tarika Moore with descriptions of six new species from Nepal, China and Indochina (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae). Zootaxa, 5258(3), pp.285-300.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1292170-Tarika-varana
Note: Volynkin et al. 2023 revised the genus Tarika Moore, with at least one additional species from the Himalayas, with Tarika annapurna Volynkin, Saldaitis, Černý & Huang, 2023 being described from Central Nepal. Volynkin et al. 2023 state that the NW Himalaya populations, including that in Uttarakhand need to be investigated.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Tarika varana (Moore, [1866]) – . 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/Tarika-varana, accessed 2025/04/23.