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
Note: Very similar to O. latifasciata (Moore, 1888) from which it is seperated by having medial area of hindwing brown (greyish-white in latifasciata), postmedian lines on both forewing and hindwing located more distally and closer to termen than in latifasciata, greater amount of median dark brown markings on forewing. Listed as cf., as the median hindwing markings are whitish brown, instead of dark brown in the original description.
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| Total | 1 |
- OD: Orthobrachia tenebrosa Yazaki, K. 1992. Geometridae, pp. 5-36. In: Moths of Nepal, Part 1. Tinea 13(Supplement 2). Tokyo, The Japan Heterocerists’ Society. pg. 23, Pl. 7/10.
- 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
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=535073
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Orthobrachia tenebrosa Yazaki, 1992 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.91. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/orthobrachia-tenebrosa, accessed 2025/06/15.