Taxonomic Information
Arctornis Germar, 1810 species known from India.
Arctornis marginata (Moore, [1883]). S. India; Sri Lanka.
Arctornis comma (Hutton, 1865). India: Uttarakhand (TL: Dehradun); Nepal.
Arctornis cygna (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal, Meghalaya.
Arctornis diaphana (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Arctornis divisa (Walker, 1855). Bangladesh (TL: Sylhet).
Arctornis lactea (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Arctornis I-nigrum (Müller, 1764). Himalaya.
Arctornis opalina (Collenette, 1951). Myanmar.
Arctornis pellucida (Swinhoe, 1903). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Arctornis rutila (Fabricius, 1781). India?
Arctornis sericea (Moore, 1877). India: Andaman Is. (TL: Port Blair).
Arctornis silhetica (Walker, 1865). Bangladesh (TL: Sylhet).
Arctornis submarginata (Walker, 1855). India: West Bengal; Bangladesh (TL: Sylhet).
Arctornis subvitrea (Walker, 1865). India.
Arctornis xuthocraspeda Collenette, 1938. India: Assam (TL).
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 | |||||||||||||
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| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
- Ocinara comma Hutton, 1865. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 2: 330; TL: Dehradun. Text at https://archive.org/details/transactionsofen32186466roya/page/330/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. 487, # 1110, Fig. 424. Reported as Leucoma comma.
- Leucoma connua[sic]. Swinhoe, 1922. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 10 (58): 463. Text at https://archive.org/details/ser9annalsmagazi10londuoft/page/463/mode/1up?view=theater
- Leucoma comma; Collenette, 1934. Novit. Zool. 39: 138. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi39lond/page/138/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 106/9.
- Shubhalaxmi, V. 2018. Birdwing Field Guide to Indian Moths. Pg. 175, Pl 58/1.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Arctornis comma (Hutton, 1865) – . 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/arctornis-comma, accessed 2025/04/24.