Taxonomic Information
Venusia Curtis, 1839 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Venusia albinea (Prout, 1938). Pakistan.
Venusia brevipectinata Prout, 1938. India: Himachal Pradesh (Dalhousie).
Venusia classisigna Inoue, 1987. Nepal; India.
Venusia crassisigna Inoue, 1987. India: Uttarakhand.
Venusia conisaria hypoconia (Prout, 1938). India: Kashmir (Rala).
Venusia lilacina lilacina (Warren, 1893). India: Sikkim (Tonglo, 12000ft).
Venusia lilacina rala (Prout, 1938). India: Kashmir (Rala).
Venusia obliquisigna (Moore, 1888). India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh.
Venusia ochrota Hampson, 1903. Nepal.
Venusia pallidaria Hampson, 1903. Pakistan; Tibet.
Venusia phasma (Butler, 1879). India: Sikkim.
Venusia purpuraria (Hampson, 1895). India: Nagaland (Nagas, 6000ft).
Venusia roseicosta Yazaki, 1994. Nepal: Janakpur. India: Himalaya.
Venusia sikkimensis (Warren, 1893). India: Sikkim.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Cidaria obliquisigna Moore, 1888; Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (3): 278; TL: Darjeeling. Text at https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/278/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. 416.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.pg. 16, pl. 68/20.
- Xue, D. and Scoble, M.J., 2002. A review of the genera associated with the tribe Asthenini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Entomology Series, 71(1), pp.77-133. Pg. 97, Fig. 130.
- Yang, S. and Pan, Z.H., 2026. Review of the genus Venusia Curtis, 1938 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae) from Xizang, China. The Indochina Entomologist, 2(4), pp.31-40. Fig. 1, Pg. 34.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1387631-Venusia-obliquisigna
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Venusia obliquisigna (Moore, 1888) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.2. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/venusia-obliquisigna, accessed 2026/05/19.