Image of Chrysocraspeda medioplaga Swinhoe ♀ (holotype)
♀ (holotype)

Chrysocraspeda medioplaga Swinhoe comb. rev.

Chrysocraspeda medioplaga Swinhoe, 1902, Trans. Ent. Soc Lond. 1902: 661

Diagnosis

The ground colour is yellow, finely speckled with rusty red over most of the wings, the exception being a triangular area at the enterior, distally, of an irregular grey medial band across the forewing. The base and costal zone of the hindwing is also grey. The hindwing is slightly angled at the margin centrally, the point of the angle being marked by a dark fleck in the otherwise yellow fringes.

Geographical range

Borneo

Habitat preference

The species only known from the holotype female from Pulo Laut, a low-lying island at the south of Borneo.

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Species (34)


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