Stigmatophora palmata (Moore, 1878) -

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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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh122
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala1
Lakshadweep
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Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim1
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
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  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
  2. Kirti, J.S. & N. Singh. 2015. Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1, pp 1-205. Nature Books of India, New Delhi. Pg. 156. 
  3. 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.
  4. 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 
  5. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204733-Stigmatophora-palmata

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Stigmatophora palmata (Moore, 1878) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://moths.ncbs.res.in/stigmatophora-palmata, accessed 2024/04/16.