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Callopistria
guttulalis Hampson
Callopistria guttulalis Hampson, 1906, Fauna British India, Moths, 4: 511.
Diagnosis.
This is a
small, pinkish grey species with a large subbasal pale blotch on the forewing
costa; the reniform and orbicular are not strongly modified; the postmedial is
irregular, a fine pale line bordered narrowly with dark and then more broadly
with pale grey on either side, and is finely zig - zag at the dorsum. The male
genitalia are relatively unmodified as in pulchrilinea but the valve is
shorter, narrowly triangular over the apical half.
Geographical
range. Indian
Subregion, Taiwan, Philippines, Borneo.
Habitat
preference. A
single specimen was taken at 900m in lower montane forest on the limestone G.
Api, Sarawak.
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