Aedia intrahens Walker comb. n.

Premusia intrahens Walker, 1858, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 15: 1780.

Anophia smaragdina Walker, 1858, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 15: 1811.

Dysedia zibellina Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874, Reise öst. Fregatte Novara, Lep. Het.: pl. 112, f. 8.

Diagnosis

This species and the next two have very similar forewing facies, though intrahens usually has the pale marginal zone less clearly separated by dark brown from the sinuously bordered discal to basal pale zone; the paler brown often extends from the reniform towards the postmedial, becoming darker as it does so.

The hindwing basal zone is a creamy white in both sexes; that of hirtissima Walker is uniformly medium brown in the male, and basally pale but slightly yellower than in intrahens in the female.

See also Aedia marginisecta Holloway.

Taxonomic Notes

The records of intrahens by Holloway (1996) proved to be a mixture of the next two species.

Geographical range

Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, N.E. Himalaya.

Habitat preference

Type material of all names in synonymy was taken in Sarawak, probably in the lowlands.

No specimens have been recorded in recent surveys.

Genitalia: