Taxonomic Information
Pseudosphetta Hampson, 1926 species known from India.
Pseudosphetta moorei (Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Andaman Is.; Sri Lanka; Nepal.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Similar extralimital species is Pseudosphetta fissigna Hampson, 1926
https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/miscellaneous_vi/miscellaneousvi_5_1.php
for extralimital P. fissisigna. Roger Kendrick states FW reniform stigma is apically tridentate in fissisigna, bidentate in moorei.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
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| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 |
- Sphetta moorei Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887. Catalogue of the Moths of India: 172. TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
- Sphetta apicalis Moore, 1879. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1879: 455, praeocc.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1993. Moths of Nepal. Part 2. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 3). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 53/8.
- Kendrick, R. 2002. Moths (insecta : lepidoptera) of Hong Kong. Pl. 37/25.
- 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. Pl. 18/20.
- Sondhi, Y., S. Sondhi, S. R. Pathour, & K. Kunte. 2018. Moth diversity (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of Shendurney and Ponmudi in Agastyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Kerala, India, with notes on new records. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 28(2). Image 133.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202708-Pseudosphetta moorei
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/miscellaneous_vi/miscellaneousvi_5_2.php
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Pseudosphetta moorei (Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887) – . 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/pseudosphetta-moorei, accessed 2025/10/29.