Hyposada astona Swinhoe

Oruza astona Swinhoe, 1901, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 7: 473.

Image of [object Object] Swinhoe ♀

Diagnosis

All wings are rather elongate, delicately marked in pinkish brown on a straw ground, generally obliquely on the forewing and more parallel to the margin on the hindwing as illustrated. The postmedial consists of a fine pale fascia that has a black component along its basal side on the hindwing, from which a band of pinkish brown grades away basad. See also the next species.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The species has not been taken in recent surveys, and the original material has data no more precise than ‘Sarawak’.

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Species (8)


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