Prorella desperata

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| taxon = Prorella desperata

| authority = (Hulst, 1896){{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82858532 |title=Prorella desperata (Hulst 1896) |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325014641/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82858532 |archive-date=March 25, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7619 |title=910460.00 – 7619 – Prorella desperata – (Hulst, 1896) |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=May 2, 2019}}

| synonyms = *Gymnoscelis desperata Hulst, 1896

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Prorella desperata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by George Duryea Hulst in 1896. It is found in the US states of Arizona and Texas.

The wingspan is about 17–19 mm.{{cite web |last=Heiman |first=Maury J. |date=November 28, 2013 |url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/333528 |title=Species Prorella desperata - Hodges#7619 |website=BugGuide |accessdate=May 2, 2019}} {{cite journal |last=McDunnough |first=James H. |author-link=James Halliday McDunnough |date=1949 |url=http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/leprefs/B093a08.pdf |title=Revision of the North American species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=93 |pages=533–728}} Adults have been recorded on wing in August and September.