Nygmia fumosa Snellen comb. n.
Porthesia fumosa Snellen, 1877, Tijdschr. Ent., 20: 69.
Euproctis sabulosa Heylaerts, 1892, Annls Soc. ent. Belg., 36: 8.
Euproctis ridleyi Swinhoe, 1906, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 17: 542.
Diagnosis
The male forewings have a pale yellow ground with two distinct overlays: a grey shading that is broadly basal to the discal spot and in an oblique postmedial band; a more sparse but uniform speckling of black scales (See Nygmia dirtea Swinhoe comb.n). In some specimens the grey extends over the whole wing. The female forewings are a deep rusty brown, uniformly and extensively irrorated with black.
Geographical Range
Sundaland.
Habitat Preference
This species is of similar ecological range and abundance to moalata (See Nygmia dirtea Swinhoe comb.n).
Biology
Yunus & Ho (1980) recorded the species (as ridleyi) as feeding on Eugenia (Myrtaceae) and Mallotus (Euphorbiaceae). There is an unpublished record of Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae) at FRIM.
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