TRIBE COSYMBIINI
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Chrysocraspeda porphyrochlamys Prout comb. n.
  
Ptochophyle porphyrochlamys Prout, 1931, Novit. zool., 36: 2.


Chrysocraspeda porphyrochlamys
(x 1.33)


Diagnosis. The wings are bright orange-yellow, finely speckled with red, with darker flecks subcostally in the postmedial areas of both wings and dark basal zones.

Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo.

Habitat preference. Three specimens have been taken in recent surveys: in swamp forest at Daerah Belait, Brunei; in lower montane forest at 1000m on G. Mulu and at 250m in dipterocarp forest on the slopes of the limestone G. Api. The second and third records are from the G. Mulu National Park, Sarawak.

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