Plutodes warreni Prout, 1923 -

Taxonomic Information

List of Plutodes Guenée, 1857 known from India based on Kirti et al. (2019). 
Plutodes costatus (Butler, 1886). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Uttarakhand. 
Plutodes cyclaria Guenée, [1858]. India: Punjab?.
Plutodes digitata Kirti & Saxena. India: Sikkim (Gangtok: TL). 
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 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 costatus separated from Plutodes warreni as under:

Separating warreni and costatus, based on warreni OD: 
Plutodes warreni has paler colour, FW yellowish triangle at costa at end of ante-medial line, larger. Plutodes costatus has FW yellowish triangle at costa at post-medial, generally smaller, but variable, HW Apical patch separated from ground colour by indendated or sinuous dark line.Underside more weakly marked; FW oblique dark central line almost obsolete in warreni.

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh11
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total11
  1. OD: Plutodes warreni Prout. 1923. The Annals & Magazine of Natural History. (9) XI. Pg. 322. 
  2. Stüning, D. 2010. Two new species of the Plutodes costatus group from the Philippenes and Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae). Bonner zoologische Beiträge 57 (1): 75–83.
  3. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=155723. [accessed 15 June 2019]
 

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Plutodes warreni Prout, 1923 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.81. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/plutodes-warreni, accessed 2024/11/14.