Taxonomic Information
Oxymacaria Warren, 1894 species known from India and Sri Lanka.
Oxymacaria ceylonica Hampson, 1902. Sri Lanka.
Oxymacaria brunneata (Warren, 1896). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Uttarakhand; Nepal.
Oxymacaria hepaticata (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Khasi hills, Meghalaya (Cherrapunji).
Oxymacaria maculosata (Warren, 1896). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills); Nepal.
Oxymacaria oliva (Swinhoe, 1894). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Oxymacaria palliata (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiri district, N Slopes, the plateau, 6000-7000ft, Maharashtra.
Oxymacaria pectinata Hampson, 1902. India: Palnis, 7000ft.
Oxymacaria penumbrata (Warren, 1896). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh.
Oxymacaria temeraria temeraria (Swinhoe, 1891). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Semiothisa penumbrata Warren, 1896. Nov. Zool. 3, pg. 141. TL: Khasis.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pg. 12. Pl. 162/20.
- 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 356.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/947483-Oxymacaria-penumbrata
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=274563
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Oxymacaria penumbrata (Warren, 1896) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.92. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/oxymacaria-penumbrata, accessed 2025/07/27.