FAMILY LASIOCAMPIDAE
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Trabala gautama Roepke
Trabala gautama Roepke, 1951: 121. 


Trabala gautama
(.65 natural size)


Diagnosis.
This is a large species with strikingly strong, bright orange fasciae and other markings, The wing veins are also delineated orange. The male genitalia (not illustrated; specimen located after text had gone to press) have a pair of triangular uncus processes, relatively large and darkly sclerotised.

Geographical range. Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo.

Habitat range. The single Bornean male was taken at 1670m in upper montane forest on Bukit Pagon, Brunei.

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