Taxonomic Information
Ornithospila Warren, 1894 species known from India.
Ornithospila avicularia (Guenée, 1857). India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal; Bhutan.
Ornithospila esmeralda (Hampson, 1895). India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland; Myanmar.
Ornithospila lineata (Moore, 1872). India: Sikkim, Meghalaya, Kerala, Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka.
Ornithospila submontrans (Walker, 1861). India: Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Kerala, Tamil Nadu.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Similiar species: Ornithospila submontrans (Walker, 1861).
See key to Bornean Ornithospila here
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_22.php [accessed 27 January 2019].
Separating avicularia and submontrans:
O. avicularia: Fasciae of wings wavy. Wing fringes mainly red.
O. submontrans: Fasciae of wings wavy. Hindwing red discal mark a chevron; white fringes usually crossed by red at the veins.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Chhattisgarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
- OD: Geometra avicularia Guenée, 1857. Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 9: 342 at http://archive.org/stream/histoirenaturell09bois#page/342/mode/1up.
- Geometra pennisignata Walker, 1861. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 22: 516.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 4/10.
- Sondhi, Y. & S. Sondhi. 2016. A partial checklist of moths (Lepidoptera) of Dehradun, Mussoorie and Devalsari in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(5): 8756–8776; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.2814.8.5.8756-8776. Reported from Dehradun.
- Sanyal, A. K., P. Dey, V. P. Uniyal & A. Raha. 2017. Geometridae Stephens, 1829 from different altitudes in Western Himalayan Protected Areas of Uttarakhand, India (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). SHILAP Revta. lepid., 45 (177). 143-163. Reported from Dehradun.
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_22_1.php.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Ornithospila avicularia (Guenée, 1857) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/ornithospila-avicularia, accessed 2025/08/15.