FAMILY SPHINGIDAE
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  Enpinanga borneensis Butler
Angonyx borneensis Butler, 1879, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1879: 261.
Daphnis labuana Rothschild, 1894, Dt. ent. Zt. Iris. 7: 299.
Enpinanga borneensis Butler; Rothschild & Jordan, 1903: 546.


Enpinanga borneensis
(.90 natural size)


Enpinanga borneensis
(.90 natural size)


Diagnosis.
See Enpinanga vigens Butler stat. rev.

Geographical range. Sundaland.

Habitat preference. The few specimens taken during the Mulu survey were from lowland alluvial forest. The species has been recorded only from lowland forest in Brunei (Harman, 1981).

Biology. Recorded host-plants (Yunus & Ho, 1980; Diehl, 1980) are: Dillenia, Tetracera (Dilleniaceae).

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