Taxonomic Information
Filodes Guenée, 1854 species known from India.
Filodes bilinealis Hampson, 1908. India: Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka.
Filodes fulvibasalis Hampson, 1899. India: Assam, Meghalaya.
Filodes fulvidorsalis (Hübner, 1832). Indian subcontinent.
Filodes mirificalis (Lederer, 1863). India: Andaman & Nicobar Is.
Filodes patruelis Moore, 1888. India: West Bengal (TL: Kolkatta), Meghalaya (Shillong), Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh.
Filodes sexpunctalis Snellen, 1890. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, NW Himalaya, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar Is.
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Similar species: Filodes sexpunctalis Snellen, 1890. Filodes fulvidorsalis which is less orange-red and has black spots at the middle of cell and discocellulars, which sexpunctalis lacks. Underside of fulvidorsalis has black spots, which sexpunctalis lacks.
http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=501049 [accessed 25 December 2019] for Filodes sexpunctalis.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Assam | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 4 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
Filodes fulvidorsalis (Hübner, 1832): Thunbergia alata, Thunbergia coccinea, Thunbergia grandiflora (Acanthaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
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- , pg 297, # 4866-67
- inaturalist.org http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/121909-Filodes-fulvidorsalis [accessed 20 March 2017]
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=273309 [accessed 20 March 2017]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Filodes fulvidorsalis (Hübner, 1832) – . 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/filodes-fulvidorsalis, accessed 2025/11/03.