TRIBE SCOLIOPTERYGINI
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Ossonoba torpida Walker
Ossonoba torpida Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 35: 1966.
Ossonoba torpida Walker; Holloway, 1976: 36.

Ossonoba torpida Ossonoba torpida
(forewing with typical flexure)




Diagnosis
. The forewing facies is unmistakable, particularly the rather dull earthy red colour, the fine white postmedial that is sharply angled subcostally, the similar but straight antemedial, the small white orbicular dot and, in some specimens, black patches just distal to the centre of the postmedial.

Geographical range. Indian Subregion, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram, New Guinea.

Habitat preference. Records are infrequent but range from the lowlands to 2600m in forested localities.

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