Taxonomic Information
Comostola Meyrick, 1888 species known from the Indian subcontinent.
Comostola caerulea Warren, 1893. India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola cedilla Prout, 1917. India: Andaman Is.
Comostola chlorargyra (Walker, 1861). India sub-region.
Comostola dispansa (Walker, 1861). Sri Lanka.
Comostola dyakaria (Walker, 1861). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004. India: Uttarakhand (TL: Bhimtal), Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Comostola hypotyphla Prout, 1917. India: Himachal Pradesh (Dalhousie).
Comostola inops Prout, 1912. India: Kashmir: Lidda Valley, Lidderwat, 6700ft, Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola laesaria (Walker, 1861). India; Sri Lanka (TL).
Comostola leucosticta Yazaki, 1993. India: Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal (TL).
Comostola maculata (Moore, 1868). India: West Bengal.
Comostola meritaria (Walker, 1861). India; Sri Lanka (TL).
Comostola multimaculata (Pajni & Walia, 1984). India: Himachal Pradesh (Nauni).
Comostola mundata Warren, 1896. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Comostola ovifera (Warren, 1893). India: Sikkim; Tibet.
Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866). South India.
Comostola quantula (Swinhoe, 1886). India: Maharashtra (Mumbai).
Comostola subtiliaria (Bremer, 1864). Himalayas.
Comostola subtiliaria demeritaria Prout, 1917. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Comostola turgescens (Prout, 1917). India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Arunachal Pradesh.
Comostola virago Prout, 1926. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2 |
- OD: Comostola leucosticta Yazaki, 1993. Geometridae, pp. 103-121. In: Moths of Nepal, Part 2. Tinea 13(Supplement 3). Tokyo, The Japan Heterocerists’ Society. Pg. 105, Pl. 59/10.
- 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.Pg. 156. Image 405.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=274551 [accessed 11 March 2022]
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=399459 [accessed 11 March 2022]
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=399448 [accessed 11 March 2022]
Note: Oval shaped cell spot. The specimens collected from Tale WLS are a good match to the original description. Similar species from India are Comostola maculata (Moore, 1868) and Comostola virago Prout, 1926; best separated by male genitalia and molecular phylogeny.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Comostola leucosticta Yazaki, 1993 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://mothsofindia.org/comostola-leucosticta, accessed 2025/04/24.