Image of Chrysocraspeda dipyramida Prout ♂
Image of Chrysocraspeda dipyramida Prout ♀

Chrysocraspeda dipyramida Prout comb. n

Heteroctenis dipyramida Prout, 1918, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9), 1: 22.

Diagnosis

The ground colour is pale yellow, almost completely shaded by grey (females) or stippled red with a red border in a Plutodes- like pattern. The hindwing margin is angled centrally, unlike in other species sharing this pattern, and there is an arcuate fine, dark, discal line.

Taxonomic Notes

Males and females are tentatively associated here, given that some other species in the genus are sexually dimorphic, and the sexes share the angled hindwing margin and general shape of the dark shading. The holotype is female.

Geographical Range

S. Burma, Borneo.

Habitat Preference

This is a lowland species, female specimens have been taken 85 miles inland from Pontianak in Kalimantan. The putative males are from dipterocarp forest in Ulu Temburong, Brunei, and the Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah.

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