Prospalta stellata Moore, 1882 -

Taxonomic Information

Prospalta Walker, [1858] species known from India. 
Prospalta contigua Leech, 1900. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh; China (TL). 
Prospalta immatura Warren, 1914. India: Sikkim (TL). 
Prospalta leucospila Walker, [1858]).  India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal. 
Prospalta ochrisquamata Warren, 1912. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills: TL). 
Prospalta pallidipennis Warren, 1912. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills: TL), Nilgiris. 
Prospalta stellata Moore, 1882. India: West Bengal (Darjeeling: TL), Arunachal Pradesh. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total1
  1. Prospalta stellata Moore, 1882. Moore, Description of new Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the Collection of the late Mr. W.S. Atkinson: 111. TL: Darjeeling. Text at https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/111/mode/1up
  2. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 16/27. 
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. pg. 17. 
  4. Condica stellata; Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pg. 295, Pl. 27/28. 
  5. Joshi, R., Raha, A., Bandyopadhyay, U., Bhattacharyya, K. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India. Zootaxa, 5669(1), pp.1-225.
  6. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1339840-Condica-stellata

iNaturalist, MON, MOT has this listed as as Condica stellata (Moore, 1882), but we follow Joshi et al (2025) as Prospalta stellata Moore, 1882. 

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Prospalta stellata Moore, 1882 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/prospalta-stellata, accessed 2025/11/23.