Taxonomic Information
Plutodes Guenée,1857 species known from India.
Plutodes costatus (Butler, 1886). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Uttarakhand.
Plutodes cyclaria Guenée, [1858]. India: Punjab?.
Plutodes discigera Butler, 1880. India.
Plutodes exiguifascia Hampson, 1895. Sri Lanka.
Plutodes exquisita Butler, 1880. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling), Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh.
Plutodes flavescens Butler, 1880. India: NE Himalayas.
Plutodes lamisca Swinhoe, 1894. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills, Cherrapunji), Arunachal Pradesh.
Plutodes nilgirica Hampson, 1895. India: Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris: TL).
Plutodes philornis Prout, 1926. India: Assam, Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Plutodes pseudocyclaria Kirti & Goyal, 2011. India: Devikulam, Kerala.
Plutodes quadratus Singh, Raha, Mallick, Kirti & Singh, 2023. India: Chhattisgarh.
Plutodes subcaudata Butler, 1880. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.
Plutodes transmutata Walker, 1861. India: "N. India", Maharashtra, Kerala, Uttarakhand ; Nepal; Sri Lanka.
Plutodes warreni Prout. 1923. India: "NW Himalaya", Arunachal Pradesh.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Plutodes warreni. See notes in references here (https://www.mothsofindia.org/plutodes-warreni)
Other members of Plutodes costatus group; many of which are extralimital.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Sikkim | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
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- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. pl. 7:24, 100:15.
- Stüning, D. 2010. Two new species of the Plutodes costatus-group from the Philippines and Indonesia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae). Bonn zoological Bulletin Volume 57 Issue 1 pp. 75–83 Pdf
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Plutodes costatus Butler, 1886 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/plutodes-costatus, accessed 2025/10/25.