Image of Savoca cristipennis Hampson ♀

Savoca cristipennis Hampson comb. n.

Gyrtona cristipennis Hampson, 1902, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 14: 213.

Diagnosis

The forewing ground colour is bone white; the anterior arch only of the postmedial is present, enclosing a bistre circle distad that grades to dark brown towards the margin and contains small black chevrons; the medial zone is dark brown with an oblique distal margin; the subbasal encloses a basal bistre area that is broken into two unequal portions by an oblique dark brown bar from the costa; there is a faint white submarginal.

Geographical range

Sri Lanka, N.E. Himalaya, Borneo (a single specimen from near Pontianak).

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Species (9)


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