Oreta pavaca pavaca Moore, 1866

Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet, László, Gyula M. & Ahmad, Jalil, 2020, An updated Checklist of Superfamily Drepanoidea (Lepidoptera) from India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (1), pp. 1-24 : 14

112. Oreta pavaca pavaca Moore, 1866

1866. Oreta pavaca Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865 (3): 815.

1923. Psiloreta pavaca purpurea Warren , in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 10: 486.

1923. Psiloreta pavaca olivacea Warren , in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 10: 486.

1967. Oreta pavaca pavaca : Watson, Bull. Br. Mus . nat. Hist. (Ent), 19 (3): 182.

1987. Oreta zigzaga Chu & Wang, Acta Ent. Sin. , 30 (3): 296.(Syn. by Song et al., 2012)

Distribution: India: NW India (Shimla, Mussorie), North India, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Khasis ( Watson, 1967). Elsewhere: China, Tibet, Nepal ( Wilkinson, 1972; Song et al., 2012).

Remark: Another known subspecies, O. pavaca sinensis Watson, 1967 also includes O. fusca Chu & Wang, 1987 , O. unichroma Chu & Wang, 1987 and O. lushansis Fang, 2003 as its synonyms is known from China ( Song et al., 2012).