Taxonomic Information
Ophiusa Ochsenheimer, 1816 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Ophiusa alticola (Hampson, 1913). India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Kulu).
Ophiusa disjungens (Walker, 1858). India: Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand; Sri Lanka.
Ophiusa discriminans (Walker, 1858). India; Sri Lanka.
Ophiusa indistincta (Moore, 1882). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasia Hills), Bihar, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh
Ophiusa olista (Swinhoe, 1893). India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, West Bengal; Nepal.
Ophiusa mejanesi (Guenée, 1852). India.
Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, [1777]). India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, West Bengal, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Ophiusa trapezium (Guenée, 1852). India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Jharkhand; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Ophiusa triphaenoides (Walker, 1858). India: Bengal (TL), Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Ophiusa tumidilinea Walker, 1858. India: NE India, Maharashtra, Nilgiris.
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, [1777]) – Green Drab: Pistacia lentiscus, Rhus coriaria (Anacardiaceae), Psidium guajava (Myrtaceae),Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae), Terminalia bellirica, Terminalia tomentosa (Combretaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Phalaena tirhaca Cramer, [1777]. Uitl. Kapellen 2 (9-16): 116, pl. 172, f. E; TL: Cape of Good Hope.
- Goff, R. African Moths. Website accessed 25 August 2015. http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/EREBIDAE/EREBINAE/ophiusa%20tirhaca.htm
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. Moths 2. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs, # 2516, pg 503 as Ophiusa tirrhaca
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 45/12.
- Gurule, S & S. M. Nikam. 2013. The moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of northern Maharashtra: a preliminary checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(12): 4693–4713; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2555.4693-713.Image [accessed 25 August 2021]. Image 135.
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Image 127.7.
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Anonymous 2026. Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, [1777]) – Green Drab. In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.21. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/index.php/ophiusa-tirhaca, accessed 2026/06/15.