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Hypomecis
subdetractaria Prout
Boarmia subdetractaria Prout,
1923, Novit. zool., 30: 211.
Boarmia detractaria Walker
(praeocc.), 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.,
35:
385.
Hypomecis subdetractaria sulawesensis Sato,
1990: 201.
Diagnosis. The upperside is a pale, variegated, grey brown and rich brown, with a
diffusely darker patch between the hindwing discal spot and the anterior part of
the postmedial. The underside is much darker than the upperside, a uniform grey-
brown.
Geographical range. Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo;
Sulawesi.
Habitat preference. The species is common in most lowland forest types.
During the Mulu survey it was particularly common in wet kerangas.
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