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Ectropidia fimbripedata Warren

Diplurodes fimbripedata Warren; Holloway, 1976: 80.

Diagnosis

The ground colour is creamy white, fasciated and irrorated dark brown in the male, greyer brown in the female. The male hindwings are roughly equal in area to the forewings, in the female they are smaller. The forewing has the antemedial and postmedial fasciae thin, clearly defined, with the intervening medial zone paler than the rest of the wing. On the hindwing the basal zone is palest, the medial zone more intensely suffused with brown in the male.

Geographical Range

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.

Habitat Preference

This is a common lowland species, recorded from a variety of forest types including heath forest. There are a few records from as high as 1000m in lower montane forest.

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Species (6)


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