Taxonomic Information
Hysterura Warren, 1895 species known from India.
Hysterura cervinaria Moore, 1868. N. India.
Hysterura multifaria (Swinhoe, [1890]). India: West Bengal (TL).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Hysterura multifaria -
Hysterura cervinaria Moore, 1868 and Hysterura multifaria (Swinhoe, [1890]) listed in The Forum Herbulot as valid species.
Hysterura cervinaria Moore, 1868. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Pg. 664.
FBI, Hampson, Vol. 3, pg. 361, #3668. Listed as Cidaria cervinaria with Cidaria multifaria as synonym.
Seitz, Vol. 12, pl. 31c for cervinaria.
Hysterura cervinaria Moore, 1868 has complete Y-shaped mark on FW.
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| West Bengal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 |
- OD: Cidaria multifaria Swinhoe, C. 1889. On New Indian Lepidoptera, chiefly Heterocera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Pp. 396-432, Pg. 429, pl. 44/9. TL: Darjeeling, West Bengal. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96894#page/551/mode/1up
- Seitz, A. (Ed.). 1914. Macro. Lep. 4, pg. 206, pl. 12a.
- Seitz, Vol. 12, Macro. Lep. pl. 31d for multifaria.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pl. 6/20.
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 99.21
- https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Hysterura_Multifaria
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=467875
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Hysterura multifaria (Swinhoe, [1890]) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://mothsofindia.org/hysterura-multifaria, accessed 2025/04/23.