SUBFAMILY EUTELIINAE
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Caedesa agropoides Walker comb. rev. 
   
Caedesa agropoides
Walker, 1862, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 6: 193.


Caedesa agropoides




Diagnosis.
The dark brown medial zone of the forewing is bordered with pale green (containing dark markings) basally, costally and marginally; the distal border of the reniform is picked out with white.

Taxonomic note. The current BMNH arrangement of the Euteliinae has this species combined with Phlegetonia. This combination has not been located in print.

Geographical range. Borneo, Sumatra.

Habitat preference. Only two specimens have been taken in recent surveys, one in lowland forest on limestone on G. Api, Sarawak, and one in coastal vegetation at Seria, Brunei.

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