Taxonomic Information
Stigmatophora Staudinger, 1881 species known from India and Myanmar:
Stigmatophora disticha (Meyrick, 1894). Myanmar.
Stigmatophora inanis Seitz, 1913. Himalayas.
Stigmatophora roseivena (Hampson, 1894). India: Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh.
Stigmatophora strigivenata (Hampson, 1894). India: Arunachal Pradesh; Myanmar.
Stigmatophora palmata (Moore, 1878). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Stigmatophora zolotuhini Dubatolov & Bucsek, 2016. India: Assam, Meghalaya.
Stigmatophora hainanensis Fang, 1991
Stigmatophora chekiangensis Daniel, 1951
are similar extralimital species. Wu, S. and Kishida, Y., 2018
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 2 |
- OD: Stigmatophora inanis Seitz, 1913. Macro. Lep. World. Vol. 10. pg. 120. As a form of S. palmata.
- Stigmatophora palliduspalmata Singh, Kirti and Joshi, 2016. In Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2016. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 2, pp 1-214. Nature Books of India, New Delhi. Pg. 112. Synomized with Stigmatophora inanis.
- Wu, S. and Kishida, Y., 2018. Elucidating the taxonomic problems of Stigmatophora karenkonis (Matsumura, 1930), comb. nov. and Miltochrista karenkensis Matsumura, 1930, stat. rev. Taiwan (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini). Tinea, 24(2), pp.130-135.
- Volynkin, A.V., Huang, S.Y. and Dubatolov, V.V., 2021. A review of the Stigmatophora palmata (Moore, 1878) species-group (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) with description of a new species from China. Zootaxa, 4999(3), pp.243-257.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54194
Note: Stigmatophora palliduspalmata Singh, Kirti and Joshi, 2016 synomized with Stigmatophora inanis Seitz, 1913 in Volynkin et al. (2021). Taxon updated to Stigmatophora inanis Seitz, 1913 on 7 March 2022 on MOI (SS).
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Stigmatophora inanis Seitz, 1913 – . 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/stigmatophora-inanis, accessed 2025/10/24.