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Calliteara
cerigoides Walker
Janassa cerigoides Walker,
1862, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 6:135.
Calliteara
cerigoides 
Calliteara
cerigoides 
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Diagnosis. See horsfieldii above. The male forewing ground is more creamy,
and the fasciation distally is more clearly defined against the pale cream.
Geographical range. S. India, Burma, Sundaland, Sulawesi.
Habitat preference. The species is frequent in lowland forest.
Biology. T.R.D. Bell (MS) has described the larva in S. India. It is earth-brown,
more indigo ventrally; the dorsal brushes are chestnut-brown. The brush on A8 is
less well developed.
The larvae live and feed high in trees, and are detected from their
droppings: of frass, cast skins or diseased larvae (parasitism appears to be
high).
Bell did not record a host-plant, but an unpublished record at FRIM is
for Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae).
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