Papuapterote punctata is a moth in the family Eupterotidae.

The wings are fawn brown, the forewings irrorated (sprinkled) with black.

The basal line is straight and outwardly oblique, while the other lines are inwardly oblique and anteriorly curved inwards to the costa.

There is also a waved, well-defined, pale outer discal line, followed by a strongly dentate black subterminal line, the space between being much irrorated with black scaling.

This article relating to the superfamily Bombycoidea is a stub.