::The Moths of Borneo::

SUBFAMILY ARAEOPTERONINAE

Hyriodes leucocraspis Hampson (Plate 3)

�� Hyriodes leucocraspis Hampson, 1910, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus., 10: 16.

Diagnosis. The wings are very dark, slightly brownish grey, the rather triangular hindwing with a distinctive speckled whitish area cut off at the apex. The distal margin of the forewing is oblique, particularly beyond an obtuse angle at the centre of the margin, and there is an irregular, pale submarginal and a sharper, more evenly curved postmedial running more or less parallel to this margin.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. The only specimen is the holotype from Sandakan on the coast of Sabah.

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