SUBFAMILY HYPENINAE
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Hypenagonia brachypalpia Hampson
     Hypenagonia brachypalpia Hampson, 1912, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc., 21: 1240.
 

Hypenagonia brachypalpia
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Diagnosis.
The wings are bone-coloured with more ochreous brown shading and black discal marks, those on the forewing bipunctate. The apical part of the hindwing is acute, and the margin is weakly bifalcate. The medial zones are lightly suffused with darker brown, which also delineates the medial and postmedial fasciae enclosing this zone. The postmedial of the forewing is irregularly sinuous and oblique from the dorsum to where it flexes sharply basad just subcostally opposite a kink in the white submarginal; from there it extends in an increasing curve, concave anteriorly, to the costa. On the hindwing the whitish submarginal is straight, edged on each side by brown, the edging on the basal side being darker. There is a further pink area between this and the marginal dark brown line, which forms a shallow zigzag.

Geographical range. Sri Lanka, Borneo.

Habitat preference. The only specimen seen is a male taken in an area of disturbed forest at about 600m in the vicinity of Poring on the lower slopes of G. Kinabalu.

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