Taxonomic Information
Orthobrachia Warren, 1895 species known from India.
Orthobrachia hirowatarii Huang & Stüning, 2016. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Orthobrachia flavidior Hampson,1898. India: Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand; Nepal.
Orthobrachia latifasciata (Moore, 1888). India: Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal (TL), Sikkim; Nepal.
Orthobrachia tenebrosa Yazaki, 1992. India: Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal.
Orthobrachia owadai Yazaki, 1992. India: West Sikkim; Nepal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- OD: Stegania latifasciata Moore, 1888, in Hewitson & Moore, Descr. new Indian lepid. Insects Colln late Mr Atkinson: 260. TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg 167, # 3142.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Plate 7, # 8.
- Huang, G-H, Su, Z-Y. & Stüning, D. 2016. Taxonomic notes on the genus Orthobrachia Warren, with description of a new species from China and Thailand (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). ZooKeys 609: 121-137. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.609.8288
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Image 278.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Orthobrachia latifasciata (Moore, 1888) – . 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/orthobrachia-latifasciata, accessed 2025/10/26.