Tamba
rufipennis Hampson
Zethes
rufipennis Hampson, 1895, Trans. ent. Soc. London,
1895: 307.
Diagnosis.
The wings are a relatively uniform medium brown, with dark brown, double
postmedials, that on the hindwing straight and that on the forewing strongly
angled, with a dark streak from the apex of the angle to the angle of the
margin. The forewing also has the reniform slightly paler and a more conspicuous
pale patch subcostally between the postmedial and the apex.
Geographical
range. Bhutan,
Nepal, Borneo.
Habitat
preference. Five Bornean specimens have been seen from recent surveys, all
from lowland localities with forest: Semengok near Kuching; two (with two more
recorded (S.J. Willott, unpublished data)) from the Danum Valley Field Centre
(100-170m); Ulu Belait (60m) and Ulu Temburong (300m) in Brunei.
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