Taxonomic Information
Similiar species:
Ornithospila avicularia.
Separated from Ornithospila submonstrans with the key difference being the FW and HW fringes are white and at the veins, usually crossed with red in Ornithospila avicularia.
Key to Bornean Ornithospila here
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_22.php [accessed 27 January 2019]
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Ornithospila submontrans (Walker, 1861) - Shorea sp. (Dipterocarpaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Geometra submonstrans Walkert, 1861, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br Mus. 22: 526. Text at http://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso2224brit#page/526/mode/1up [accessed 24 January 2019]
- Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Pl. 5: 95.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=208356OD: [accessed 24 January 2019]
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_22_3.php
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/85_GEOMETROIDEA/04_GEOMETRIDAE/07_Geometrinae/framepage_geometrinae.html [accessed 24 January 2019]
- Sondhi, Y, S. Sondhi, S. R. Pathour & K. Kunte. 2018. Moth diversity (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of Shendurney and Ponmudi in Agastyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Kerala, India, with notes on new records. Trop. Lepid. Res., 28(2): 66-89. Pl. 8: 190.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Ornithospila submonstrans (Walker, 1861) – . 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/ornithospila-submonstrans, accessed 2025/04/24.