Taxonomic Information
Xanthorhoe Hübner, [1825] species known from India based on Kirti et al. (2019).
Xanthorhoe castanea Warren, 1901. India: Gourais Valley, Kashmir.
Xanthorhoe curcumata (Moore, 1988). India: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
Xanthorhoe curcumoides Prout, 1923. India: Cherrapunji, Meghalaya.
Xanthorhoe designata Hufnagel, 1767.
Xanthorhoe fumipennis (Hampson, 1891). India: Nilgiri district, the plateau, 6700ft.
Xanthorhoe griseiviridis (Hampson, 1896).
Xanthorhoe hampsoni Prout, 1925. India: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Xanthorhoe magnificata (Walker, 1862). India: Nilgiri Hills.
Xanthorhoe mecoterma (Prout, 1938). India: Kashmir Valley, 8500ft.
Xanthorhoe molata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875). Sri Lanka; India: Nilgiris.
Xanthorhoe saturata (Guenée, [1858]). India: NW Himalaya, E. Himalaya, Nilgiris (Hampson, 1895).
Xanthorhoe trusa Prout, 1939. India: Palni Hills.
Xanthorhoe sordidata (Moore, 1885) is now listed as Visiana sordidata (Moore, 1885) (Schmidt, 2006).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Uttarakhand | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
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| Total | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
- OD: Larentia saturata Guenée, 1857, in Boisduval &Guenée, Hist. nat. Insectes. (Lepid.) 10: 269.
- Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths. Vol. 3.Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg 362, # 3671 as Cidaria saturata.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 6/9.
- Schmidt, O., 2006. Visiana sordidata (Moore), a complex of species from the Indo-Pacific region (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae). Spixiana, 29(1), p.77.
- Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Image 57.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/423818-Xanthorhoe-saturata
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=413567 [accessed 11 December 2019]
- http://www.jpmoth.org/Geometridae/Larentiinae/Xanthorhoe_saturata.html
Page citation
Anonymous 2024. Xanthorhoe saturata (Guenée, [1858]) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.74. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/xanthorhoe-saturata, accessed 2024/09/08.