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.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Ophiusa olista -
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Minucia olista Swinhoe, 1893. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 12 (70): 261; TL: Nanchuan, China. Text at https://archive.org/stream/annalsmagazineof6121893lond#page/261/mode/1up.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 45/7.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Pl. 19/4-5.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/Noctuidae/Catocalinae/Ophiusa_olista.html. [accessed 06 June 2019]
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=560874. [accessed 06 June 2019]
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Ophiusa olista (Swinhoe, 1893) – . 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/ophiusa-olista, accessed 2026/06/10.