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Diduga trichophora Hampson
Diduga trichophora Hampson, 1900, Cat.
Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus., 2: 541.
Diduga
trichophora 
(x 1.63)
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Fig. 7d: Diduga trichophora Hampson |
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Diagnosis.
The forewing
costa is slightly angled at one-quarter in males, and darkened within the border
there. The border is an ‘old gold’ type of yellow, with a regularly
crenulate inner border on the distal margin. The forewing has a hair tuft under
the dorsum and the hindwing has a fold and hair scales on the costa, and a hair
pencil posterior to the cell. The male antennae are ciliate, and the genitalia
have the valves broad centrally but otherwise of the simple, long, tapering
type.
Geographical
range. Bali,
Java, Sumatra, Borneo, S. Burma.
Habitat
preference. The
species is rare in lowland forest, recorded in the Danum Valley area of Sabah
and at Labi and Ulu Temburong in Brunei.
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