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Chrysocraspeda medioplaga Swinhoe comb. rev  
  
Chrysocraspeda medioplaga  Swinhoe, 1902, Trans. Ent. Soc Lond.  1902: 661


Chrysocraspeda medioplaga(holotype)


Diagnosis.
The ground colour is yellow, finely speckled with rusty red over most of the wings, the exception being a triangular area at the enterior, distally, of an irregular grey medial band across the forewing. The base and costal zone of the hindwing is also grey. The hindwing is slightly angled at the margin centrally, the point of the angle being marked by a dark fleck in the otherwise yellow fringes.

Geographical range. Borneo

Habitat preference. The species only known from the holotype female from Pulo Laut, a low-lying island at the south of Borneo.

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