Smerinthulus quadripunctatus Huwe

Smerinthulus quadripunctatus Huwe, 1894, Berl. ent. Zeitschr., 40: 371.

Smerinthulus terranea Butler sensu Rothschild & Jordan, 1903: 300.

Diagnosis

The ground colour of the forewing is dull reddish yellow in the male, darker and more reddish in the female.

There is a dark discal spot and a series of fine, irregular dark fasciae.

The excavations of the forewing margin are weak compared to those of related taxa, particularly so in the female (illustrated by Diehl (1980)).

Geographical range

Sundaland.

Habitat preference

Harman (1981) recorded one specimen from lowland forest at 300m and one from upper montane forest on Bukit Retak (1618m), Brunei.

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