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Nygmia chirunda
Swinhoe
comb. n.
Euproctis
chirunda Swinhoe,
1903, Trans. ent. Soc. London, 1903: 422.
Diagnosis. Only females are known, but the species appears to be allied to those
immediately following. It is distinguished by reduction of the yellow
submarginal areas of the forewing to two small patches on the distal margin and
one at the centre of the costa that only partly embraces the discal spot.
Geographical range. Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia.
Habitat preference. The species is rare, only taken in the lowlands. In
recent surveys, only two specimens have been recorded, both from forest at 300m
in the Ulu Temburong, Brunei.
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