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Onagrodes eucineta Prout 
   
Onagrodes eucineta Prout, 1958, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), 6: 446.


Onagrodes eucineta
(paratype, Selangor)
(x 1.33)


Onagrodes eucineta
(x 1.33)


Diagnosis. This is a paler, much more rufous brown species than its congeners. The male has the ovate subcostal scale patch of the hindwing more or less concolorous with the rest of the wing, and there is a prominent tuft of black scales in the centre of the dorsum.

Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo.

Habitat preference. The only Bornean specimen seen is a female from 1620m on G. Kinabalu, misplaced in the series of oosyndica referred to by Holloway (1976).

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