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 lineata more details in The Moths of Borneo. Part 9. Holloway, 1998
For other members of the genus check Bold systems.
Key to Bornean Ornithospila
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_22.php [accessed 27 January 2019]
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 |
- , Pg 565 , #4070 as Afrena esmeralda
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_22_8.php [accessed 5 Sep 2016]
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=391260 [accessed 5 Sep 2016]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Ornithospila esmeralda (Hampson, 1895) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/ornithospila-esmeralda, accessed 2025/10/30.