Mecodina poaphiloides Walker comb. n.

Thermesia poaphiloides Walker, 1864, J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 7: 186.

Mecodina sumatrana Kobes, 1984, Heterocera Sumatrana 2: 30, syn. n.

Diagnosis

This is a small rather uniform species with facies typical of the genus, distinguished by an abnormally large, irregular, white-edged, dark brown patch submarginally on the forewing costa: it extends half way across towards the dorsum.

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