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Similar species are Somena similis (Moore, [1860]), Somena scintillans Walker, 1856
Orvasca subnotata Walker, 1865
Both sexes of Orvasca subnotata similar to female of S. scintillans but the forewing is paler, crossed by two distinct, whitish median lines. Yellow border lacks iridescent scales like in S. scintillans (MON). Male: FW: brownish protrusions touch wing margin. HW: brown with marginal yellow even border. Female: FW: brownish protrusions touch wing margin. HW: brown with marginal yellow even border. FW costa is brown. Orvasca subnotata larva lacks crimson tubercles on lateral surface.
The individual represented by the life cycle cf635-644 on this website has larva that matches that of Orvasca subnotata Walker, 1865, but has entirely yellow hindwings, which represents a discrepancy to the description of orvasca, wherein both sexes of this species have HW brown with marginal yellow even border.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | ||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 6 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 31 | 11 |
Orvasca subnotata Walker, 1865: Lantana camara (Verbenaceae), Plumeria alba (Apocynaceae) and Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae) (Singh et al. 2021) in Sondhi et al. 2021.
- Orvasca subnotata Walker, 1865. List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 32: 502.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pg. 75, Pl. 56/10-11. As Euproctis subnotata.
- Wang, H.S., Wang, M. and Fan, X.L., 2011. Notes on the tribe Nygmiini (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from Nanling National Nature Reserve, with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 2887(1), pp.57-68.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/02_EREBIDAE/01_LYMANTRIINAE/16_Orvasca/Orvasca%20subnotata/Orvasca%20subnotata.htm [accessed 23 June 2021]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/124255-Orvasca-subnotata
- https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=189602
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Orvasca subnotata Walker, 1865 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://mothsofindia.org/orvasca-subnotata, accessed 2025/04/24.