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, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Kerala.
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
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Lyclene palmata Moore, 1878. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878: 31, pl. 3, f. 5; TL: NE.Bengal. Text at https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen78zool#page/31/mode/1up. Plate at https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen78zool#page/n45/mode/1up
- Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1, pp 1-205. Nature Books of India, New Delhi. Pg. 156.
- 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.
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 116.14
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204733-Stigmatophora-palmata
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Stigmatophora palmata (Moore, 1878) – . 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-palmata, accessed 2025/10/29.











