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Yula
muscosa Hampson comb. n.
Bryophila muscosa Hampson, 1891, Ill. typical Specimens Lepid. Het. Colln. Br. Mus., 8:
72.
Diphthera imray Hampson,
1906 J. Bombay nat Hist. Soc., 17:472.
Risoba ocellata Prout,
1924, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley, 1: 415.
Diptherocoma muscosa Hampson;
Holloway, 1976: 13.
Diagnosis.
The olive
green forewings marked with black, with the white reniform, orbicular, and
claviform stigmata and antemedial are diagnostic.
Geographical
range. India,
Borneo, Sumatra, Java.
Habitat
preference. The
species is rare, but with great ecological range, having been taken in mangrove
at sea-level, lowland dipterocarp forest and in upper montane forest at 1618m in
Bukit Retak, Brunei and at a similar altitude on G. Kinabalu.
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