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 (TL), Maharashtra.
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
Plutodes flavescens: based on Bold Systems, discigera has less wavy lines compared to flavescens which is now a separate species. From Bold Systems, the distance between the basal rufous patch and the outer rounded patch is mutch greater in discigera, much less in flavescens. Seen at http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=155677. P. flavescens known from NE Himalaya also. Roger Kendrick PhD plates at Plate 23/28.
Differences with flavescens nicely summed up at
http://archive.org/stream/annalsmagazineof561880lond#page/223/mode/1up [accessed 25 January 2018]
Plutodes cyclaria: rufous patches larger, much closer to outer patch on HW. Ref Bold Systems. Seen at http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=96879
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Plutodes discigera Butler, 1890 – . 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-discigera, accessed 2025/11/01.