Taxonomic Information
Plutella Schrank, 1802 species known from India.
Plutella annulatella (Curtis, 1882)
Plutella xylostella Linnaeus, 1758
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
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| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, [1758]) – Diamondback Moth; Cabbage Moth - Brassica juncea, Brassica nigra, Brassica oleracea, Brassica rapa, Iberis odorata, Matthiola incana, Raphanus raphanistrum ssp. sativus, Alyssum sp. (Brassicaceae), Shorea robusta (Dipterocarpaceae), Solanum melongena (Solanaceae), Apium graveolens (Apiaceae), Arachis hypogaea (Fabaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Phalaena xylostella Linnaeus, 1767. Sys. Nat. , 1:890.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamondback_moth
- https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/42318
- https://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/yponomeutoidea/plutellidae/plutellinae/plutella/#xylostell
- http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Plutella-xylostella.php [accessed 08 November 2019]
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/126765-Plutella-xylostella
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, [1758]) – Diamondback Moth; Cabbage Moth. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://mothsofindia.org/plutella-xylostella, accessed 2025/04/23.