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Tipasa nebulosella Walker

Tipasa nebulosella Walker, 1863, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 27: 129.

Diagnosis

This is a small species with rather narrow, triangular forewings marked in various shades of brown on a fawn ground. The fasciae are narrow, linear and pale, of unshaded ground colour, the submarginal straight, the antemedial and postmedial angled. The reniform is also paler, as is a broad streak that bisects the apex. The brown areas are tinted variably pinkish or ochreous.

Geographical range

Borneo, Sri Lanka.

Habitat preference

The holotype male was taken by A.R. Wallace in Sarawak. A further male has been recorded in lowland forest at Ulu Dusun, 30 miles west of Sandakan in Sabah.

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Species (4)


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