Syntypistis pallidifascia ovalis Hampson
Stauropus pallidifascia Hampson, 1892, Fauna of British India, Moths, 1: 151.
Stauropus ovalis van eecke, 1929, Zool. Meded. Leiden 12: 166.
Vaneeckeia pallidifascia ovalis van Eecke; Kiriakoff, 1968: 131; Holloway, 1976: 56, fig. 368.
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Diagnosis
The species resembles those in Quadricalcarifera to some extent but may be recognised by the broadly rufous medial area of the forewing that is bounded distally by a roughly semicircular postmedial.
Taxonomic Note
The genus Vaneeckeia Kiriakoff (Watson et al., 1980; not Vaneeckia as in Schintlmeister (1991 [1992], 1993, 1994b, S & P)) was subordinated to Syntypistis by Schintlmeister (S & P). Holloway (1987a) recorded pallidifascia from Sulawesi, together with a new species, then undescribed. The Philippines island of Mindoro has a subspecies distinct from the typical race on other islands: juttamariae Schintlmeister & Lourens (2010)
Geographical range
N. E. Himalaya; Taiwan; Sundaland; Buru, New Guinea.
Habitat preference
Only three Bornean specimens have been seen, one from 1200 m on G. Kinabalu and two from 1618 m on Bukit Retak.
The species may therefore be montane.
