Juxtarctia multiguttata

Juxtarctia multiguttata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Division:	Ditrysia
Family:	Arctiidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Juxtarctia
Species:	J. multiguttata
Binomial name
Juxtarctia multiguttata (F. Walker, 1855)
Synonyms
Hypercompa multiguttata F. Walker, 1855 Spilosoma multiguttata Deiopeia spilosomoides F. Walker, 1864 Deiopeia pardalina F. Walker, 1864 Diacrisia multiguttata major Rothschild, 1910 Diacrisia multiguttata pallidior Rothschild, 1910 Juxtarctia bispinuatus Kirti & Kaleka, 2002 Juxtarctia monospinuatus Kirti & Kaleka, 2002 Spilarctia multicornutiata Kaleka, 2005 Spilarctia nirmalae Kaleka, 2005 Spilarctia himachalensis Kaleka, 2005 Spilarctia valvata Kaleka, 2005

Juxtarctia multiguttata is a polymorphic tiger-moth in the family Arctiidae, endemic for Himalayas. It is known from India: North-West Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam; Nepal; Bhutan; Burma (Myanmar); China: Tibet within western slopes of the Himalayas; Indochina (from Thailand to Vietnam and Cambodja).

References

• Dubatolov, V.V., 2010: Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 65: 1-106, Marktleuthen.
• Kaleka, A.S., 2005: The multiguttata complex of the genus Spilarctia Butler (Arctiinae: Arctiidae: Lepidoptera) from India. Entomon 30 (3): 207-220, University of Kerala: Kariavattom, Trivandrum, India.
• Kirti, J.S. & Kaleka, A.S., 2002: A new genus and two new species of Arctiinae, Arctiidae: Lepidoptera, from India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 99 (1): 79-85, Mumbai.
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog