Lepidoptera > Noctuoidea > Notodontidae > Notodontinae > Dicranurini > Harpyia
Harpyia microsticta (Swinhoe, 1892)
Harpyia dicyma Wiltshire, 1958 is sometimes treated as a full species.
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Harpyia microsticta microsticta
Harpyia microsticta dicyma
Early Stages:
Indian and global distribution:
records (based on images):
Larval Host Plants:
Identification:
Sexual, seasonal & individual variation:
Status, Habitat and Habits:
Adult moth observations that have been databased:
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arunachal Pradesh | ||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | ||||||||||||
| All states |
Similiar species:
List of Harpyia Ochsenheimer, 1810 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.
References:
- 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 subpsecies.
- 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
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Cite this page along with its URL as:
Anonymous. 2022. Harpyia microsticta (Swinhoe, 1892). In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Moths of India, v. 3.30. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. http://www.mothsofindia.org/sp/356258/Harpyia-microsticta
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