Taxonomic Information
List of Oeonistis Hübner, [1819] 1816 species known from India (Singh et al. 2021).
Oeonistis altica (Linnaeus, 1768). India (NE India, Madhya Pradesh).
Oeonistis vithurensis Singh & Kirti, 2014. India (Kerala, Maharashtra).
Oeonistis entella (Cramer, 1779). India (Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh, Throughout India).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1. Nature Books of India, New Delhi, 205 pp.
- Singh, N. ,Joshi, R.,Kirti, J. S.,Bisht, S. S., & H. S. Param. 2021. A catalogue of Indian Arctiinae (Erebidae, Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 5058 (1): 001–118.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-7/plesiomorphic%20genera/plesiomorphic_6.php states that true "entella" occurs only S. India and Sri Lanka.
Note: Oeonistis Hübner, [1819] species occuring in NE India could be either Oeonistis altica (Linnaeus, 1768) or Oeonistis entella (Cramer, [1779]). Best separated by comparing genitalia.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Oeonistis spp. Hübner, [1819] – . 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/oeonistis-spp, accessed 2025/04/24.