Ophthalmitis is a genus of geometer moths in the Boarmiini tribe.
Description All species have characteristic color patterns: the ground color is pale fawn, suffused or variegated with greenish brown. The fasciae are blackish and the discal spots likewise, prominent on each wing and usually enclosing an ellipse or a lunula of the ground color.
Palpi reaching vertex of head and fringed with hair in front. Antennae bipectinated (comb like on both sides) to near apex in both sexes, the branches longer in the male than female. Hind tibia not dilated. Forewings with a fovea in male. Apex rounded. Vein 3 from close to angle of cell. Veins 7 to 9 stalked from near upper angle. Vein 10 free and vein 11 given off from vein 12. Hindwing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell.
Species
Ophthalmitis abundantior Wehrli, 1943 Ophthalmitis albosignaria Bremer & Grey, 1853 Ophthalmitis basiscripta Holloway, 1993 Ophthalmitis caritaria Walker, 1860 Ophthalmitis clararia Walker, 1866 Ophthalmitis cordularia Swinhoe, 1893 Ophthalmitis cordularioides Holloway, 1993 Ophthalmitis diurnaria Guenée, 1858 Ophthalmitis episcia Wehrli, 1943 Ophthalmitis exemptaria Walker, 1860 Ophthalmitis fasciata Warren, 1900 Ophthalmitis hedemanni Christoph, 1880 Ophthalmitis herbidaria Guenée, 1857 Ophthalmitis hypophayla Wehrli, 1943 Ophthalmitis infusaria Walker, 1860 Ophthalmitis irrorataria Bremer & Grey, 1853 Ophthalmitis isorphnia Wehrli, 1943 Ophthalmitis juglandaria Oberthür, 1913 Ophthalmitis lectularia Swinhoe, 1891 Ophthalmitis mundata Walker, 1869 Ophthalmitis ocellata Leech, 1889 Ophthalmitis pertusaria Felder, 1874 Ophthalmitis poliaria Hampson, 1902 Ophthalmitis prasinospila Prout, 1916 Ophthalmitis pulsaria Swinhoe, 1891 Ophthalmitis punctifascia Holloway, 1976 Ophthalmitis ruficornis Warren, 1897 Ophthalmitis rufilauta Prout, 1925 Ophthalmitis satoi Holloway, 1993 Ophthalmitis saturniaria Graeser, 1888 Ophthalmitis senex Butler, 1878 Ophthalmitis sinensium Oberthür, 1913 Ophthalmitis siniherbida Wehrli, 1943 Ophthalmitis specificaria Bryk, 1948 Ophthalmitis striatifera Hampson, 1902 Ophthalmitis subpicaria Leech, 1897 Ophthalmitis suppressaria Walker, 1866 Ophthalmitis variegata Holloway, 1993 Ophthalmitis viridior Holloway, 1993 Ophthalmitis xanthypochlora Wehrli, 1924
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