Taxonomic Information
Xanthodes Guenée, 1852 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Xanthodes albago (Fabricius, 1794). India: West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu.
Xanthodes transversa Guenée, 1852. India: Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu.
Xanthodes intersepta Guenée, 1852. India: Delhi, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Tripura.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Xanthodes intersepta Guenée, 1852: Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus tilliaceus, Decaschistia trilobata, Kydia calycina, Thespesia lampas, Urena lobata (Malvaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- 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 323, # 2061 as Acontia intersepta.
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (insecta : lepidoptera) of Hong Kong. PhD Thesis. Pl 42/23.
- 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 34/22.
- Gurule, S & S. M. Nikam. 2013. The moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of northern Maharashtra: a preliminary checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(12): 4693–4713; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2555.4693-713.Image 221.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=768394 [accessed 15 August 2017]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/115645
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Xanthodes intersepta Guenée, 1852 – . 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/index.php/xanthodes-intersepta, accessed 2025/11/10.