Taxonomic Information
Micardia Butler, 1878 species known from India.
Micardia pulcherrima (Moore, [1868]). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu; Bhutan.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 |
- Leucania pulcherrima Moore, 1867, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1867:48, pl. 6, fig. 7. TL: Darjeeling. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofzoo1867zool/page/48/mode/1up. Plate at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofzoo1867zool/page/n1132/mode/1up
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg. 309, Fig. 168.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1998. Moths of Nepal. Part 5. TINEA. Vol. 15 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 136/9.
- Chen, F. and Xue, D., 2012. A review of Micardia Butler, 1878 from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Eustrotiinae). Zootaxa, 3417(1), pp.45-52. Pg. 4, pl. 1-3.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1283010-Micardia-pulcherrima
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Micardia pulcherrima (Moore, [1868]) – . 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/micardia-pulcherrima, accessed 2026/01/31.