Risoba obstructa Moore, 1881 -

Taxonomic Information

Risoba Moore, 1881 species known from the Indian subcontinent:
Risoba basalis Moore, 1882. India. 
Risoba diphteroides Hampson, 1898. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Risoba diversipennis (Walker, 1858). India: Punjab, Himalayan Region, Meghalaya; Myanmar.
Risoba flavipennis Hampson, 1895. India; Bhutan; Nepal. 
Risoba obstructa Moore, 1881. India; Sri Lanka.
Risoba obscurivialis Holloway, 2003. India: N.E. Himalaya, West Bengal, Meghalaya.
Risoba prominens Moore,1882. India; Sri Lanka.
Risoba repugnans (Walker, 1856). Indo-Australian tropics. 
Risoba variegata (Moore, 1882). West Bengal; Nepal. 
Risoba vitellina (Moore, 1882). India: West Bengal, Sikkim; Nepal.
Risoba vialis Moore, 1882. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, N.E. Himalaya.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Risoba obstructa -


StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh1
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala1
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya1
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga1
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu11
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total1131
Risoba obstructa Moore, 1881: Lagerstroemia speciosa (Lythraceae), Terminalia paniculata, Terminalia elliptica, Combretum indicum (Combretaceae), Sterculia (Sterculiaceae), Xylia xylocarpa (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
  1. OD: Risoba obstructa Moore, 1881. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. Pg. 328-329. TL: Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Text at https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen81zool#page/328/mode/1up
  2. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 42/27
  3. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/418808-Risoba-obstructa
  4. https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=368951 
  5. https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-18/risobinae/risobinae_1_17.php
  6. http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/sarr/obstructa.html [accessed 15 August 2021]
Notes: Risoba obstructa Moore, 1881 has a prominent kink on FW post-medial line where it meets the dorsum (refer MOB). 

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Risoba obstructa Moore, 1881 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/risoba-obstructa, accessed 2024/04/20.