Taxonomic Information
Oreta Walker, 1855 species known from Indian subcontinent.
Oreta ancora Chu & Wang, 1987. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Oreta eminens (Bryk, 1943). Myanmar.
Oreta extensa Walker, 1855. NE India.
Oreta fuscopurpurea Inoue, 1956. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Oreta griseotincta Hampson, [1893]. E. Himalaya; Nepal.
Oreta insignis (Butler, 1877). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Oreta obtusa Walker, 1855. N. India; Myanmar.
Oreta pavaca pavaca Moore, [1866]. Himalayas.
Oreta sanguinea Moore, 1879. Himalayas.
Oreta suffusa Walker, 1855. S. India; Sri Lanka.
Oreta vatama Moore, [1866]. Himalayas.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Oreta pavaca Moore, [1866]. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (3): 815; TL: Darjeeling. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen65zool/page/815/mode/1up?view=theater
- 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 350, # 758.
- Oreta pavaca pavaca; Watson, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) 19 (3): 182, f. 47-50. Text at https://archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis19entoond/page/182/mode/1up?view=theater. Oreta pavaca sinensis Watson, 1967. Subspecies from China.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo Pg. 21, Pl, 1/28.
- Song, W. H., Xue, D. Y., & H. X. Han. 2012. Revision of Chinese Oretinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae). Zootaxa 3445: 1-36. Pg. 17, Fig. 33-34.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/244303-Oreta-pavaca. Quite a few errors in ID here, with some griseotincta species listed as pavaca.
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Oreta pavaca Moore, [1866] – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.80. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Oreta-pavaca, accessed 2024/11/04.