SUBFAMILY HERMINIINAE
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Hadennia subapicibrunnea Holloway
     Hadennia subapicibrunnea Holloway, 1976: 40.

 

Hadennia subapicibrunnea
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Diagnosis.
The male antennae have a small node centrally. The wings are a medium to dark brownish grey, generally more uniform than in the species above. The yellow discal spots are prominent, that of the hindwing more or less on the distal edge of a blackish brown band; this band is in more of an antemedial position on the forewing, which also has a blackish brown subapical patch that is bounded distally by a pale submarginal line, biarcuate where adjacent to the brown patch. The male antennae have an ochreous hair pencil on the third segment of the labial palps.

Taxonomic note. The pattern of a Buru male has a similar unusual configuration but the dark subapical area of the forewing is more extensive and more shallowly bilobed at the submarginal. The yellow discal spot of the hindwing is larger, much more prominent, and the dark bar just basal to it is more oblique to the dorsum.

Geographical range. Borneo, Buru.

Habitat preference. Only the holotype female is known from Borneo, taken flying weakly by day at 1620m on G. Kinabalu. The only specimen from Buru, a male, was taken at a similar altitude.

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