SUBFAMILY AGARISTINAE
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Mimeusemia postica Walker  
Aegocera postica Walker,1862, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool), 6: 86.
Mimeusemia postica Walker; Holloway, 1976: 6; Kiriakoff, 1977: 52.


Mimeusemia postica



Diagnosis.
This is similar to the next species with three pale patches on the black forewing and two on the hindwing, but the central forewing one is restricted to subdorsally, and the dorsal one on the hindwing is yellow rather than white.

Geographical range. Indo-China, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.

Habitat preference.
The species comes to light at night in lowland forest.

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