''Sewa orbiferata'' is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1862. It is found in northern India, northern

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

, Malaysia, Borneo, Java and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

(Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian). Adults are white, the forewings with four cinereous obliquely quadrate spots on the costa and an irregular broad discal transverse band, which is transversed by two short wavy streaks and a submarginal series of small spots. The marginal line is blackish. The hindwings are suffused with orange yellow on the lower part of the exterior border and there is a brownish-cinereous submarginal band, maculated anteriorly and traversed posteriorly by two parallel white lines, beneath which are three short black streaks. Two similar streaks are found above it on the abdominal margin.''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1867: 645
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Subspecies

*''Sewa orbiferata orbiferata'' (northern India, northern Myanmar, Malaysia, Borneo, China: Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian) *''Sewa orbiferata cilicoides'' (Snellen, 1889) (Java)

References

Moths described in 1862 Drepaninae {{Drepaninae-stub