Subspecies in India
Daplasa Moore, 1879 species known from India.
Daplasa postincisa (Moore, 1879). India: NE. Bengal (TL), Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland; Nepal.
Daplasa variegata (Moore, 1879). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling); Nepal.
Daplasa irrorata Moore, 1879. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Wang et al. (2015) state that Daplasa postincisa (Moore, 1879) maybe the female of Daplasa variegata. Needs to be investigated.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 4 | 1 |
- Euproctis (?) postincisa Moore, 1879. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879: 400, pl. 32, f. 5; TL: NE.Bengal. Text at https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen792zool#page/400/mode/1up. Plate at https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen792zool#page/n125/mode/1up
- Nygmia postincisa; Swinhoe, 1923, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (61): 65. Text at https://archive.org/stream/annalsmagazine9111923lond#page/65/mode/1up
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 81/29. Female.
- Wang, H., Wahlberg, N., Holloway, J.D., Bergsten, J., Fan, X., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Wen, L., Wang, M. and Nylin, S., 2015. Molecular phylogeny of Lymantriinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Erebidae) inferred from eight gene regions. Cladistics, 31(6), pp.579-592. For tribal placement in Daplasini.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Daplasa postincisa (Moore, 1879) – . 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/daplasa-postincisa, accessed 2025/11/05.






