SUBFAMILY HADENINAE
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Elusa mediorufa Hampson  
Elusa mediorufa
Hampson, 1909, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8), 4. 375.


Elusa mediorufa ♂
(holotype)


Diagnosis.
The male antennae are broken but may possibly be filiform. The forewings are pale brown with a large, subbasal, rufous brown patch. The margins are also dark and there is a fine, irregular, crenulate postmedial. The male genitalia have the uncus down flexed, narrow, apically bifurcate, the valves lacking coremata and with a simple, straight, apically spatulate harpe.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference.
The species is known only from the holotype male from Sarawak, but with no precise locality data.

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