[3][4] Species of the genus Harpesaurus are found on the Greater Sunda Islands.

[3] The natural habitat of lizards of the genus Harpesaurus is forests.

Duméril, 1851) The species formerly known as H. thescelorhinos King, 1978 is a synonym of H. borneensis.

The Sumatran species H. modiglianii was previously known only from the type specimen, collected in 1891, but was found again in 2018.

[5] Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Harpesaurus.