Plutodes lamisca Swinhoe, 1894 -

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

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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  1. Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae vol 3, pg 163, # 3131.
  2. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo pl 7/25. 
  3. Plutodes digitata; Singh, M. & Raha, A. & Mallick, K. & Kirti, J. & Singh, N. (2023). A review of the genus Plutodes Guenée (Geometridae: Ennominae) from India with description of one new species. Zootaxa. 5323. 499-523. 10.11646/zootaxa.5323.4.3. Synonomizes digitata with lamisca
  4. Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P. D. N. 2007. BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (website). http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=155727 [accessed 16 April 2017]

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Plutodes lamisca Swinhoe, 1894 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.83. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/plutodes-lamisca, accessed 2025/03/28.