Pingasa lariaria Walker

Hypochroma lariaria Walker, 1860, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 21: 433.

Hypochroma irrorataria Moore, 1867, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1867: 632.

Hypochroma paulinaria Pagenstecher, 1885, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 38: 47.

Diagnosis

This is the largest of the greyish species, distinguished particularly by the strongly crenulate postmedials and reduced white patches at the centre of the distal margins of each wing.

Only P. chlora has the fasciae so crenulate, but chlora is a smaller, much paler species, with weaker markings and no yellow on the underside.

Geographical range

N. India to Sundaland, Sulawesi, S. Moluccas, New Guinea.

Habitat preference

Never common, this species has been taken over an altitude range from the lowlands to 2110m.

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