Taxonomic Information
Oenospila Swinhoe 1892 species known from India.
Oenospila flavifusata Warren, 1861. India: Sikkim, Meghalaya, Karnataka, Kerala, Goa; Sri Lanka.
Oenospila strix (Butler, 1889). India: Himachal Pradesh (Dharamsala), Sikkim, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Similiar species:
Oenospila strix Butler, 1889 has a very large brown patch on HW costa.
http://israel.inaturalist.org/taxa/764722-Oenospila-strix [accessed 22 September 2020]
Geometrinae of China, Fauna Sinica Plate XVIII image 18 & 19 for flavifusata and strix respectively.
Oenospila sacculstrix Kirti, Goyal & Kaur 2012 described from Agumbe (Kirti et al. 2012) is considered as nomen nudum by Plotkin & Kawahara (2020).
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Thalera flavifusata Walker, 1861. List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 22: 596. TL: Sri Lanka. Text at https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso2224brit#page/595/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. pg 508 #4110 as Thalassodes flavifusata.
- Seitz, A. (Ed.) 1920. Macro Lep. 12, pg. 109, Pl. 13e.
- Han, H. and Xue, D., 2011. Fauna Sinica (Insecta Vol. 54. Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Geometrinae). Plate XVIII image 17 & 18 for flavifusata and strix.
- Kirti, J.S., Goyal, T. and Kaur, M. 2012. An inventory of family Geometridae (Lepidoptera) from Western Ghats of India. Journal of Entomological Research, 36(1), pp.83-94.
- Murillo-Ramos, L., Brehm, G., Sihvonen, P., Hausmann, A., Holm, S., Ghanavi, H.R., Õunap, E., Truuverk, A., Staude, H., Friedrich, E. and Tammaru, T., 2019. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies. PeerJ, 7, p.e7386. For tribal placement in Hemitheini.
- Plotkin, D. and Kawahara, A.Y. 2020. Review of recent taxonomic changes to the emerald moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae). Biodiversity data journal, 8.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_31_1.php
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=15455 [accessed 22 September 2020]
- https://www.papua-insects.nl/insect%20orders/Lepidoptera/Geometridae/Geometrinae/Oenospila/Oenospila%20flavifusata.htm
- https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Oenospila_flavifusata_En
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Oenospila flavifusata (Walker, 1861) – . 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/oenospila-flavifusata, accessed 2025/10/29.