Taxonomic Information
Similiar species:
Petelia Herrich-Schäffer, [1855] species known from India.
Petelia albopunctata (Swinhoe, 1891)
Petelia delostigma Prout, 1932
Petelia distracta (Walker, 1860)
Petelia capitata (Walker, 1867)
Petelia fasciata (Moore, 1868)
Petelia immaculata Hampson, 1893
Petelia medardaria Herrich-Schäffer, 1856
Petelia riobearia (Walker, 1860)
Petelia paroobathra Prout, 1932
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Petelia immaculata -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 3 |
- Petelia immaculata Hampson, 1893. Ill. typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln Br. Mus. 9: 140, pl. 168/6 & 12. Text at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft09brituoft/page/140/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft09brituoft/page/n216/mode/1up?view=theater
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 8/6. The image shown in MON is not Petelia medardaria but possibly Petelia immaculata.
- Iyer, G., D. Stüning & S. Sondhi. 2021. An inventory of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae) of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(13): 19887–19920. 7105.13.13.19887-19920. Images 194-197.
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062572. Image 329.
Note: Identity of species from Tale WLS confirmed by Dieter Stüning for Sondhi et al. 2021 paper.
Page citation
Anonymous 2023. Petelia immaculata Hampson, 1893 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.50. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/petelia-immaculata, accessed 2023/06/05.