Taxonomic Information
Harpyia Ochsenheimer, 1810 species known from India.
Harpyia longipennis (Walker, 1855). India (Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, S India); Nepal; Pakistan.
Harpyia microsticta microsticta (Hampson, 1892). India (Nagaland, Uttarakhand); Nepal.
Harpyia microsticta dicyma (Wiltshire, 1958). India (Himachal Pradesh); Nepal; Pakistan.
Harpyia morozovi Schintmeister, 2013. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Harpyia dicyma Wiltshire, 1958 is sometimes treated as a full species.
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- OD: Damata microsticta Swinhoe, 1892. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxford (1) : 302 at http://archive.org/stream/catalogueofeaste01univ#page/302/mode/1up [accessed 16 January 2018]
- Damata microsticta Hampson, [1893]. Fauna Br. India (Moths) 1 : 157 at http://archive.org/stream/moths01hamp#page/157/mode/1up. Type from Naga Hills.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl 32/18.
- Schintlmeister, A. & A. Pinratana. 2006. Moths of Thailand, Volume 5: Notodontidae. Pl. 15, # 115.
- Chandra, K., Mazumder, A., Sanyal, A.K., Ash, A., Bandyopadhyay, U., Mallick, K. & A. Raha, A., 2018. Catalogue of Indian Notodontidae Stephens, 1829 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 4505 (1). Lists H. m. microsticta and H. m. dicyma as the two subspecies.
- Mazumder, A., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K., Gayen, S., Mallick, K., Bandyopadhyay, U., Chandra, K. and Schintlmeister, A., 2020. A new species of Nerice Walker, 1855 and further additions to the catalogue of Indian Notodontidae Stephens, 1829 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from Himalaya with report of range extensions. Zootaxa, 4748(1), pp.119-140.
- http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/01_NOTODONTIDAE/05_Dicranurinae/32_Harpyia/Harpyia%20microsticta/Harpyia%20microsticta.htm [accessed 16 January 2018]
- http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-4/harpyia/notodontidae_57_1.php
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Harpyia microsticta (Swinhoe, 1892) – . 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/harpyia-microsticta, accessed 2025/10/24.