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Hyperythra
lutea Stoll
Phalaena lutea Stoll, 1787, Uitl. Kapellen 4:157.
Phalaena flavaria Fabricius, 1787, Mant. Ins. 2:187.
Phalaena flavata Fabricius, 1794, Ent. Syst. 3(2): 169.
Hyperythra ennomaria
Guenée, 1857, Hist. nat. Insectes, Spec. gen. Lep. 9:103.
Hyperythra limbolaria
Guenée, 1857, Ibid. 9:101.
Hyperythra luteata Guenée, 1857, Ibid. 9:101
Hyperythra penicillaria
Guenée, 1857, Ibid. 9:101.
Hyperythra rufifimbria
Warren, 1896, Novit. zool. 3:140, syn. n.
Diagnosis. The ground colour is yellow, the wings of the male
more or less densely striated with red and brown, stronger in the postmedial and
antemedial zones, particularly at the forewing costa. The underside of the male
is brighter, more orange-yellow, with a whitish zone at the margin just
posterior to the forewing apex.
Taxonomic notes. Dissection of the holotype of rufifimbria Warren
has proved it merely to be an aberration (quasi-melanic) of lutea. H.
susceptaria Walker (see H. susceptaria
Walker) is revived from synonymy.
Geographical range. Indian
Subregion, S.E. Asia, Sundaland.
Habitat preference. Only
two Bornean specimens have been seen: a male without altitude data from G.
Kinabalu in the BMNH; a male from 500m in the Poring Hot Springs area of G.
Kinabalu in the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Sabah collection.
Biology. The larva was described by Singh (1953), with
extensive details of chaetotaxy. The head and body are finely granulate, the
latter cylindrical, pale greyish (specimens in alcohol), with black-rimmed,
ochraceous spiracles. The host-plant was Gouania.
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