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Omiza
lycoraria Guenée comb. n.
Hypochrosis lycoraria Guenée,
1857, Hist. nat. Insectes, Spec. gen. Lep., 10:538.
Hypochrosis jasminaria Guenée,
1857, Ibid., 10: 538.
Decetia hypopyrata Snellen,
1895, Dt. ent. Zt. Iris, 8:146.
Hypochrosis languidata Swinhoe,
1902, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 10: 416.
Hypochrosis lycoraria Guenée;
Holloway, 1976: 76.
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Diagnosis. Both sexes are much more extensively reddish brown than in the next two
species. The male is usually uniform brown rather than completely yellow, and in
the female the medial area of the forewing and basal area of the hindwing may
have a dull yellowish ground but this is much more heavily mottled with brown
than in the next species.
Taxonomic notes. The males occur in two forms: uniform brown with the forewing postmedial
only slightly concave distad (typical); costa broadly greenish, postmedial
strongly concave (jasminaria). The females also vary in the concavity of
the postmedial. No genitalia differences could be detected so the forms are here
treated as conspecific.
Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra.
Habitat preference. The species is commonest in lowland forests but
extends up to about 1800m.
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