Taxonomic Information
Amyna Guenée, 1852 species known from India
Amyna axis (Guenée, 1852). Indian subcontinent.
Amyna glaucoptera Hampson, 1910. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling: TL).
Amyna leucoptera Hampson, 1910. India: Nilgiris (TL).
Amyna leucostriga Hampson, 1910. India: Himachal Pradesh (Dharamsala: TL).
Amyna monocampta Hampson, 1910. India: Sikkim (TL).
Amyna natalis (Walker, [1859]). Indo-Australian tropics.
Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1794). Indo-Australian tropics.
Amyna renalis (Moore, 1882). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling: TL).
Amyna stellata Butler, 1878. Indian subcontinent.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Amyna axis - The Eight-spot
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
- Perigea axis Guenée, 1852. Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 5 (Noct. 1): 407; TL: Tahiti (in French).
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figsPg. 251, # 1834.
- Gurule, S & S. M. Nikam. 2013. The moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of northern Maharashtra: a preliminary checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(12): 4693–4713; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2555.4693-713.Image [accessed 05 June 2021] 219.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pl. 35/29-31.
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/acon/axis.html [accessed 05 June 2021]
- https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/NOCTUIIDAE/BAGISARINAE/amyna%20axis.htm
- http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Amyna_Axis_En [accessed 05 June 2021]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Amyna axis (Guenée, 1852) – The Eight-spot. 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/amyna-axis, accessed 2025/04/24.