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Chrysocraspeda comptaria Swinhoe  
   
Chrysocraspeda comptaria Swinhoe, 1902, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond., 1902: 662.
   
Chrysocraspeda comptaria pulverimargo Prout, 1917, Novit. zool., 24: 313.


Chrysocraspeda comptaria
(x 1.33)


Diagnosis. The facies is distinctive, with a broad basal area of pinkish grey on both wings that grades to dark red at its distal border, this dark red more or less disintegrating into the yellow margin.

Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi; New Guinea (ssp. pulverimargo).

Habitat preference. Both specimens taken in recent surveys were from the lowlands: at Semengok near Kuching; in secondary vegetation at Milepost 1 on the Labi road in Brunei.

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