Artaxa vitellina (Kollar, 1848) -

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Artaxa vitellina -


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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
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Uttarakhand232
West Bengal
Total2412
  1. OD: Liparis vitellina Kollar, 1848; in Hügel, Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek 4: 471; TL: Massuri, Himalaya. 
  2. Euproctis gamma Walker, 1856. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, pt. 7, pg. 1731. TL: N.India. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso07brit/page/1731/mode/1up?view=theater (for female)
  3. Artaxa princeps Walker, 1865.  List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, pt 32 pg 331. TL: N.Hindostan. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3132brit/page/331/mode/1up?view=theater for male
  4. 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. 476, #1075.
  5. Kaleka, A.S., Singh, D. and Bali, G.P.K., 2022. Further studies on genus Artaxa Walker (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from India. Oriental Insects, 56(2), pp.198-212. Fig. 1, C-D. 

Other Notes

Similar extralimital species with black forked medial band on yellow FW.  
Artaxa sakaguchii (Matsumura, 1927).  https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/12601/1/19%281%29_p1-91.pdf
http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/76_Lymantriidae/3237_Artaxa_sakaguchii/Atraxa_sakaguchii.htm
(extralimital), post-medial is present.
 

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Artaxa vitellina (Kollar, 1848) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.72. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/artaxa-vitellina, accessed 2024/03/29.