Hyperythra lutea Stoll

Phalaena lutea Stoll, 1787, Uitl. Kapellen 4 :157.

Phalaena flavaria Fabricius, 1787, Mant. Ins . 2 :187.

Phalaena flavata Fabricius, 1794, Ent. Syst . 3 (2): 169.

Hyperythra ennomari a Guenée, 1857, Hist. nat. Insectes, Spec. gen. Lep. 9 :103.

Hyperythra limbolaria Guenée, 1857, Ibid . 9 :101.

Hyperythra luteata Guenée, 1857, Ibid . 9 :101

Hyperythra penicillaria Guenée, 1857, Ibid. 9 :101.

Hyperythra rufifimbria Warren, 1896, Novit. zool. 3 :140, syn. n.

Diagnosis

The ground colour is yellow, the wings of the male more or less densely striated with red and brown, stronger in the postmedial and antemedial zones, particularly at the forewing costa. The underside of the male is brighter, more orange-yellow, with a whitish zone at the margin just posterior to the forewing apex.

Taxonomic Notes

Dissection of the holotype of rufifimbria Warren has proved it merely to be an aberration (quasi-melanic) of lutea. H. susceptaria Walker (see H. susceptaria Walker ) is revived from synonymy.

Geographical Range

Indian Subregion, S.E. Asia, Sundaland.

Habitat Preference

Only two Bornean specimens have been seen: a male without altitude data from G. Kinabalu in the BMNH; a male from 500m in the Poring Hot Springs area of G. Kinabalu in the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Sabah collection.

Biology

The larva was described by Singh (1953), with extensive details of chaetotaxy. The head and body are finely granulate, the latter cylindrical, pale greyish (specimens in alcohol), with black-rimmed, ochraceous spiracles. The host-plant was Gouania.