Xanthorhoe saturata (Guenée, [1858]) -

Taxonomic Information

Similiar species:

List of known Xanthorhoe 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, 1857). NW Himalaya, E. Himalaya, Nilgiris (Hampson, 1895). 
Xanthorhoe sordidata (Moore, 1885). India: Sikkim; Khasis (Hampson, 1895).
Xanthorhoe trusa Prout, 1939. India: Palni Hills.

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Xanthorhoe saturata (Guenée, [1858]): Brassica oleracea, Rorippa indica (Brassicaceae), Camellia spp. (Theaceae), Mentha longifolia (Lamiaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010)
  1. OD: Larentia saturata Guenée, 1857, in Boisduval &Guenée, Hist. nat. Insectes. (Lepid.) 10: 269. 
  2. 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
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 6/9. 
  4. 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.
  5. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/423818-Xanthorhoe-saturata
  6. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=413567  [accessed 11 December 2019]
  7. 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. 3.72. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/xanthorhoe-saturata, accessed 2024/03/29.