Taxonomic Information
Psyra Walker, 1860 species known from India and Nepal.
Psyra angulifera (Walker, 1867). India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Dharmshala), Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam; Nepal.
Psyra cuneata Walker, 1860. India: W. Himalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya; Nepal.
Psyra crypta Yazaki, 1994. Nepal (TL: Mt Phulchouki).
Psyra debilis Warren, 1888. Pakistan (TL: Thundiani); India: Ladakh. Ssp. debilis and Ssp. indica.
Psyra dsagara Wehrli, 1953. India: West Bengal.
Psyra falcipennis Yazaki, 1994. India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Psyra fulvaria Yazaki, 1992. India: Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal.
Psyra gracilis Yazaki, 1992. India: Sikkim, West Bengal; Nepal (TL: Godavari).
Psyra moderata Inoue, 1982
Psyra spurcataria Walker, 1863. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya; Nepal.
Psyra similaria (Moore, [1868]). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya; Nepal.
Psyra szetschwana Wehrli, 1953. India: Arunachal Pradesh.
Psyra variabilis Mallick, Bandyopadhyay & Sanyal, 2022. India: Uttarakhand (TL: Changsil, Govind WLS).
Needs validation.
Psyra trilineata (Moore, 1868) and Psyra rufolinearia Leech, 1897
Provisionally identified. This species cannot be reliably distinguished from Psyra crypta Yazaki, 1994, by external characters alone.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similar species: Psyra crypta Yazaki, 1994.
This species cannot be reliably distinguished from Psyra crypta Yazaki, 1994, by external characters alone.
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| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Psyra spurcataria Walker, 1863: Rosa sp. (Rosaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- , pg 221, # 3285.
- pl 71/9, 12, 15.
- Liu, Z., Xue, D., Wang, W. and Han, H., 2013. A review of Psyra Walker, 1860 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae) from China, with description of one new species. Zootaxa, 3682(3), pp.459-474.
- Mallick, K., Dey, R., Bandyopadhyay, U., Mazumder, A., Gayen, S., Ali, M., Das, G.N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K., Gupta, S.K. and Uniyal, V.P., 2022. Taxonomy and ecology of genus Psyra Walker, 1860 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) from Indian Himalaya. Plos one, 17(4), p.e0266100. Fig. 13, G-L.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=274485 [accessed 15 Oct 2015]
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Psyra spurcataria Walker, 1863 – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/index.php/psyra-spurcataria, accessed 2026/01/13.