Hyposidra picaria Walker 

Lagyra picaria Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 25: 1541.

Hyposidra caesia Warren, 1897, Novit. zool., 4: 257.

Hyposidra ruptifascia Warren, 1901, Ibid, 8: 201.

Hyposidra lactiflua Prout, 1931, Ibid, 37: 31.

Hyposidra picaria Walker; Holloway, 1976: 75.

Diagnosis

The two white forewing spots and incomplete white hindwing bar on a medium grey ground are diagnostic.

Geographical Range

Sundaland.

Habitat Preference

The species has been taken infrequently in a range of lowland forest types.

Biology

The species has been reared by Chey Vun Khen and staff at the Forest Research Centre, Sepilok. The larva is short, robust, a blackish chocolate-grey, with five irregular rings of white dots round segments A1 to A5. Further pale dots occur on T1 and lateral to the anal clasper. The host-plant was Acacia mangium (Leguminosae).

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