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Detounda
spurcata
Walker
Detounda spurcata Walker, 1864, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 193.
Carea acypera Hampson, 1905, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 16:
593, syn. n.
Orthocraspis
acypera
Hampson; Holloway, 1976: 27; Kobes, 1997: 168.
Diagnosis. The forewings are distinctive, with straight, darkened distal
margins and fine, stippled-striate, dark brown markings evenly over the fawn
ground of the rest of the wing. There is a slightly more prominent black discal
dot.
Taxonomic note. Specimens dissected from Sulawesi and New Guinea had a much
shorter costal process, a less sclerotised anellus and a larger single cornutus
and denser multiple one in the aedeagus vesica.
Geographical range. Bali, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Philippines,
Sulawesi, N. Moluccas, New Guinea.
Habitat preference.
Most older material is from the lowlands, e.g.
Bidi in Sarawak, but single females taken in recent surveys are from 1930m on
G. Kinabalu as well as from lowland forest at the Danum Valley Field Centre.
Chey (1994) recorded two specimens from plantation and secondary forest in the
lowlands of Sabah.
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