Image of Cacyparis tenuipalpis Snellen ♂

Cacyparis tenuipalpis Snellen

Epizeuxis tenuipalpis Snellen, 1880, Tijdschr. Ent., 23: 130 (and 24: 68).

Cacyparis tenuipalpis Snellen; Kobes, 1997: 26.

Diagnosis

The ovate forewings, with silver-lined grey areas and margins and elliptical, black subapical ocellar mark, are unmistakable.

Geographical range

Thailand, Sundaland, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference

No material has been taken in recent surveys except a single specimen from a Eucalyptus deglupta plantation in the lowlands of Sabah (Chey, 1994). Older material seen is from the lowlands of Kalimantan (Samarinda, Pontianak).

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