Oreta obtusa Walker, 1855

Oreta obtusa Walker, 1855, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 5: 1167. Holotype Ƥ, India: Silhet (BMNH). Oreta obliquilinea Hampson, 1893, Fauna. Brit. India. (Moths), 1: 349. Syntype, India (BMNH).

Psiloreta inconspicua Warren, 1923, in Seitz, Macrolepid. World, 10: 486, pl.50: l. Syntypes 131Ƥ, India: Masuri (BMNH). Psiloreta obtusa: Watson, 1961, Bull. Br. Mus. nat . Hist. (Ent.), 10: 345.

Diagnosis. The yellow and brown form of this species are close to O. vatama (see diagnosis under that species). The brown form is similar to O. andrema (see diagnosis under that species). The male genitalia are close to those of O. brunnea, but can be differentiated by the narrower and slightly pointed uncus, the slenderer median process of the gnathos, the nearly triangular valva (sometimes asymmetric, the hooked process of the left sacculus is distinctly shorter than that of the right one) with distal part slenderer, and the round anterior margin of the saccus. In O. brunnea, the uncus is broad, the median process of the gnathos is broader, the valva is bluntly triangular, and the sclerotized process of the sacculus is much broader.

Distribution. China ( O. obtusa dejeani), India ( O. obtusa obtusa), Nepal ( O. obtusa obtusa), Myanmar, Malaya ( O. obtusa aequitermen), Indonesia ( O. obtusa javae, O. obtusa aequitermen).