Taxonomic Information
Note: Kailasha effracta (Walker, 1854) is a synonym (Volynkin et al. 2018).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Nephelomilta effracta -
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 8 |
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs, # 1284, pg 57
- Cerny, K. & A. Pinratana. 2009. Moths of Thailand, Vol. 6, Arctiidae. 283 pp, Pl 11, # 111 a. b.
- Kailasha effracta Walker, 1854. In: Kirti & Singh, 2015, Arctiid Moths of India 1: 79.
- Ulziijargal, B., Na, S, M. & Bae, Y.S. 2017. Revision of the genus Kailasha (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from Oriental region, with description of one new species. Zootaxa, 4216(1), pp.085-093.
- Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 2018, Revision of the genus Nephelomilta Hampson, 1900, with descriptions of twelve new species and two new subspecies (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), Zootaxa 4472 (3), pp. 401-451. Transfers Kailasha effracta to Nephelomilta effracta.
Note: Changed genus to Nephelomilta Hampson, 1900 from Kailasha Singh & Kirti, 2015 on 11 Dec 2022 based on Volynkin et al. (2018) (SS).
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Nephelomilta effracta (Walker, 1854) – . 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/lepidoptera-0, accessed 2025/04/25.