Image of Ossonoba torpida Walker ♂
Image of Ossonoba torpida Walker ♂

Ossonoba torpida Walker

Ossonoba torpida Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 35: 1966.

Ossonoba torpida Walker; Holloway, 1976: 36.

Diagnosis

The forewing facies is unmistakable, particularly the rather dull earthy red colour, the fine white postmedial that is sharply angled subcostally, the similar but straight antemedial, the small white orbicular dot and, in some specimens, black patches just distal to the centre of the postmedial.

Geographical range

Indian Subregion, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram, New Guinea.

Habitat preference

Records are infrequent but range from the lowlands to 2600m in forested localities.

Genitalia:


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