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.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Longipennis longipennis longipennis -
Harpyia longipennis -
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 2 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 4 |
- , pg 157, # 278 as Damata_longipennis.
- pl.32:19 as Damata longipennis.
- Schintlmeister, A & C.L. Fang, 2001. New and less known Notodontidae from mainland China Neue Entomologische Nachrichten band 50: 1-141. Pdf pg.54 pl.IX 80a-d (pg.119).
- 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.
Note: Schintlmeister states that bh770 is probably Harpyia morozovi Schintmeister, 2013 (SS, pers. comm.)
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Harpyia longipennis (Walker, 1855) – . 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/index.php/longipennis-longipennis, accessed 2025/11/10.