Juxtarctia multiguttata

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Juxtarctia multiguttata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Juxtarctia
Species:	J. multiguttata
Binomial name
Juxtarctia multiguttata (Walker, 1855)
Synonyms
Hypercompa multiguttata Walker, 1855 Spilosoma multiguttata Deiopeia spilosomoides Walker, 1864 Deiopeia pardalina 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 subfamily Arctiinae, endemic for Himalayas. It is known from India: north-west Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam; Nepal; Bhutan; Myanmar; China: Tibet within western slopes of the Himalayas; Indochina (from Thailand to Vietnam and Cambodia).

• 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.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

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