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
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| Total | 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
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 16/27.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. pg. 17.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.