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
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.
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| Total | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Plutodes warreni Prout. 1923. The Annals & Magazine of Natural History. (9) XI. Pg. 322.
- 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.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=155723. [accessed 15 June 2019]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Plutodes warreni Prout, 1923 – . 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/plutodes-warreni, accessed 2025/10/31.