SUBFAMILY EPIPLEMINAE
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Europlema poecilaria Swinhoe comb. n.
   
Epiplema poecilaria Swinhoe, 1905, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 16: 626.
   
Epiplema poecilaria Swinhoe; Holloway, 1976: 87.


Europlema poecilaria


Diagnosis.
The facies is much as in the previous four species, but the size is greater and the forewing marginal zone broader, particularly towards the anterior.

Geographical range. Sumatra, Borneo.

Habitat preference. Only two specimens are known: the Sumatran holotype and a male from 1930m on G. Kinabalu.

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