Alphogaster tensipennis Walker

Phauda tensipennis Walker, 1862, J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 6: 92.

Diagnosis and taxonomic note

The fore- and hindwings are long and very narrow as illustrated. The forewings are slightly paddle-shaped, broadest at about three-quarters, medium rusty orange-brown with blackish darkening on the veins and a broad, diffusely bordered, oblique blackish band across the centre of the wing. The abdomen has a transverse creamy white band below.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The holotype female (OUMNH: 257) was taken in Sarawak by A.R. Wallace, probably in the lowlands.