Taxonomic Information
Serrodes Guenée, 1852 species know from India.
Serrodes caesia Warren, 1915. India: Mizoram.
Serrodes campana (Guenée, 1852). India: Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Tamil Nadu; Bangladesh.
Serrodes partita (Fabricius, 1775). India: Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Similar species: Serrodes campana (Guenée, 1852)
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
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| Punjab | |||||||||||||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Noctua partita Fabricius, 1775. Syst. Ent. pg. 6024.
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg. 510, # 2532 for description of male as Serrodes inara.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Pl. 14/3.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serrodes_partita
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/518637-Serrodes-partita
- https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/EREBIDAE/CALPINAE/serrodes%20partita.htm
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Serrodes partita (Fabricius, 1775) – Catapult Moth. In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.2. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/serrodes-partita, accessed 2026/05/06.