Subspecies in India
Tethea oberthueri oberthueri (Houlbert, 1921). NE Himalaya; Nepal; Myanmar.
Taxonomic Information
Tethea Ochsenheimer, 1816 species known from the Indian subcontinent (Joshi et al 2020):
Tethea albicosta (Moore, 1867). India: Himachal Pradesh (Shimla), Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal; Myanmar.
Tethea consimilis Warren, 1912. Indian Himalaya; Nepal.
Tethea oberthueri (Houlbert, 1921). NE Himalaya; Nepal; Myanmar.
Tethea subampliata (Houlbert, 1921). Myanmar.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Tethea oberthuri -
Similar species: Tethea albicosta (Moore, 1867)
Thyatira albicosta Moore, 1867; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1867: 45; TL: “Bengal”. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofzoo1867zool/page/45/mode/1up?view=theater
MON Pl. 82/27.
http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=1143780
Separating Tethea oberthueri and Tethea albicosta
Comparing Bold and MON, images, albicosta is paler, with a tinge of pink; the discocellular rings are equal size in oberthueri and differently sized in albicosta, with the lower ring being smaller. Also, in oberthueri, the rings are conjoined, while in albicosta they are separated.
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- Saronaga oberthüri Houlbert, 1921; In: Oberthür, Étud. Lépid. Comp. 18 (2): 194, f. 52. Text & figure at https://archive.org/details/etudesdelpidop181921ober/page/195/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 13/10.
- Zhuang, H., Yago, M., Owada, M. and Wang, M., 2017. Taxonomic review of the moth family Thyatiridae (Lepidoptera) from Yunnan province, China. Zootaxa, 4306(4), pp.451-477. Fig. 10.
- Joshi, R., Singh, N. and Ahmad, J., 2020. An updated checklist of superfamily Drepanoidea (Lepidoptera) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 120(1), pp.1-24.
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Plate 4/90.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-8/thyatirinae/thyatirinae_3_1.php
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=749099
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Tethea oberthueri (Houlbert, 1921) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/Tethea-oberthueri, accessed 2024/05/03.