Taxonomic Information
Ovipennis Hampson, 1900 species known from India.
Ovipennis anomala (Elwes, 1890). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Ovipennis dudgeoni (Elwes, 1890). India: West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh.
Ovipennis flavivenosa Moore, 1878. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Ovipennis insolita (Volynkin, Černý, Bayarsaikhan & Bae, (2019): India: NE India, North of West Bengal, Sikkim, Meghalaya.
Ovipennis joshii (Volynkin & Cerný, 2019). India: Meghalaya (TL: Garo Hills), Sikkim, Tamil Nadu.
Ovipennis incompletostriga Volynkin & Černý, 2017. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Ovipennis milani (Černý, 2009). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Ovipennis incompletostriga -
Similar extralimital species
Ovipennis nangwak (Volynkin & Černý, 2017). N. Thailand.
Ovipennis rawanga (Volynkin & Černý, 2017). N. Myanmar.
Similar Indian species
Rubrindiania cardinalis (Hampson, 1900). Black stripe reaches forewing margin.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
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| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
- Volynkin, A.V. & Černý, K., 2017. Revision of the Barsine cardinalis-anomala 'species-complex' (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Zootaxa, 4358(3), pp. 441-461.
- Volynkin, A. V., Huang, S-Y. & Ivanova, M. S. 2019. An overview of genera and subgenera of the Asura/Miltochrista generic complex (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Part 1. Barsine Walker, 1854 sensu lato, Asura Walker, 1854 and related genera, with descriptions of twenty new genera, ten new subgenera and a check list of taxa of the Asura/Miltochrista generic complex. Ecologica Montenegrina 26 (2019): pp. 14-92.
- 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 155.
Incorrectly identified as Rubrindiania cardinalis (Hampson, 1900). Corrected to Ovipennis incompletostriga Volynkin & Černý, 2017 on 30 October 2020.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Ovipennis incompletostriga Volynkin & Černý, 2017 – . 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/index.php/ovipennis-incompletostriga, accessed 2025/11/07.