Echanella temperata Prout comb. n.

Echanella temperata Prout, 1928, Sarawak Mus. J., 3: 491.

Diagnosis

The forewings are a more uniform dark greenish brown than in obliquistriga, obscurely fasciated except for the distinctly paler submarginal. Males have the dorsal two thirds of the hindwing distinctly darkened. Their labial palps are much smaller, recurved to not much further than the anterior of the thorax.

Geographical range

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference

The species is frequent in forests from the lowlands to 1790m.

Geographical Range

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi.

Habitat Preference

The species is frequent in forests from the lowlands to 1790m.

Taxonomic Note

The unique female of Nodaria flavifusca Hampson (1895, Fauna Br. India, Moths 3: 56) from the Naga Hills in N.E. India appears to be an Echanella similar to temperata and is therefore placed in that genus, comb. n. The genitalia are very similar to those of female temperata, but formal synonymy of the two species under flavifusca should await discovery and examination of males from India.