Taxonomic Information
Orothalassodes Holloway, 1996 species known from India.
Orothalassodes hypocrites (Prout, 1912). India: S. India (Travancore), Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Darjeeling), Meghalaya (Khasi Hills, Cherrapunji),
Orothalassodes pervulgatus Inoue, 2005. India. West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Orothalassodes falsaria (Prout, 1912). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills), West Bengal (Darjeeling), Uttarakhand (Mussoorie), Nilgiris; Bhutan.
Orothalassodes aptifimbria (Prout, 1916). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh (Tale WLS).
Orothalassodes leucospilota (Moore, [1887]). S. India; Sri Lanka.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Diagnosis (MOB). This (Orothalassodes hypocrites) and the next species (O. retaka, extralimital to India) have the enlarged white spot in the postmedial at the forewing dorsum. They are best distinguished by the male genitalia as indicated below. O. hypocrites has more distinctly red margins to the wings that contain white spots at the vein ends in the cilia.
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- Thalassodes hypocrites Prout, 1912, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, 129: 153. Holotype , Singapore. (BMNH)
- Orothalassodes hypocrites: Holloway, 1996, Malay. Nat. J., 49 (3–4): 259.
- Han, H. & Xue, D., 2011. Thalassodes and related taxa of emerald moths in China (Geometridae, Geometrinae). Zootaxa, 3019(1), pp.26-50. Pg. 31, Fig. 5.
- Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Image 82.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/85_GEOMETROIDEA/04_GEOMETRIDAE/07_Geometrinae/framepage_geometrinae.html
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_36_1.php
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/199521-Orothalassodes-hypocrites
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Orothalassodes hypocrites (Prout, 1912) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Orothalassodes-hypocrites, accessed 2024/05/06.