Taxonomic Information
Similiar species:
Xenortholitha Inoue, 1944 species known from India and Nepal.
Xenortholitha falcata Yazaki, 1993
Xenortholitha propinguata (Kollar, [1848])
Xenortholitha latifusata (Walker, 1862)
Xenortholitha falcata Yazaki, 1993
MON Part 2, pg. 110, pl. 59/33.
Chandra et al. 2019. Pl. 100.22.
Xenortholitha latifusata (Walker, 1862)
FBI, Moths of India, Hampson, Vol 3, pg. 370, #3693 as Larentia latifusata.
Ortholitha latifusata Seitz Vol 4 pg 165;
Chandra et al. 2019. Pl. 100.23
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Xenortholitha propinguata -
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- OD: Cidaria propinguata Kollar, [1848]. Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek 4: 488. (TL: Mussoorie, Uttarakhand). Text (in German) at https://archive.org/details/kaschmirunddasr04hg/page/488/mode/2up
- 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 357 #3656 as Cidaria niphonica.
- Seitz, A. (Ed.). 1937. The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Suppl 4. Pg. 78 & Pl. 7 k. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56149025#page/29/mode/1up. As Ortholitha niphonica.
- Seitz, A. (Ed.). 1939. The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Vol. 12, pg. 263. Plate at Supple. Vol. 4, pl 7k. States that niphonica in Seitz Vol 4 is actually propinguata.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 6/21.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pg. 109. Xenortholitha propinguata epigrypa in MON Part 1, Pl. 6/21 is revised to Xenortholitha sp.
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 100. 24
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/954605-Xenortholitha-propinguata
- https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=545177
- https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Xenortholitha_Propinguata
- http://www.jpmoth.org/Geometridae/Larentiinae/Xenortholitha_propinguata_niphonica.html
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Xenortholitha propinguata (Kollar, [1848]) – . 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/xenortholitha-propinguata, accessed 2025/10/26.