SUBFAMILY HADENINAE
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Xylostola indistincta Moore  
Vupara indistincta
Moore, 1882, Descr. new Indian lepid. Insects Colln Atkinson, p. 163.
Xylostola indistincta
Moore; Holloway, 1976: 15.


Xylostola indistincta


Diagnosis.
See the generic account. The dark brown markings of the forewing include a punctate orbicular and a multipunctate reniform, an apical shade with a sinuous row of dots basal to it that is continued similarly sinuously by dots in the posterior part of the postmedial; the anterior part of the postmedial is angled irregularly. The margin is also punctate.

Geographical range. Indo-Australian tropics to New Guinea:

Habitat preference. All Bornean material was taken at 1050m and 1200m on G. Kinabalu in cultivated areas (though with some forest remnants).

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