Brachydecetia rufescens Butler comb. n.

Decetia rufescens Butler, 1880, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5), 6 :121.

Diagnosis

See the generic description and Brachydecetia calcarea Holloway.

The wings are a uniform reddish brown with straight darker fasciae as in Decetia. On the hindwing there is a postmedial zig-zag row of dots on the veins and spaces, those on the veins displaced basad relative to those in the spaces.

Taxonomic Notes

Closely related, but undescribed species occur in Thailand and New Guinea (slide 238). Brachydecetia calcarea Holloway is more distantly related.

Geographical range

Borneo, Sumatra (ZSM).

Habitat preference

The species in Borneo is known only from the holotype, a specimen labelled merely ‘Sarawak’.

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