Platyprosopa
nigrostrigata Bethune-Baker
Bagada nigrostrigata Bethune-Baker, 1906, Novit zool 13: 209.
Platyprosopa
nigrostrigata Bethune-Baker; Holloway, 1976: 10.
Diagnosis.
The forewing
ground is bone colour, marked with typical trifine pattern in light brown. The
black costal and marginal streaks are diagnostic, the latter differently
positioned (more anterior) to that in Acronicta or Craniophora.
Geographical
range. Sundaland,
Sulawesi, Kei, New Guinea, Bismarcks.
Habitat
preference. The
only Bornean specimen seen was from 1200m at Bundu Tuhan (cultivation and forest
remnants) on G. Kinabalu.
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