SUBFAMILY STICTOPTERINAE
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Lophoptera obliquilinea Prout
   
Lophoptera obliquilinea
Prout, 1928, Bull. Hill Mus., Witley 2: 166.


Lophoptera obliquilinea


Diagnosis.
The forewings are dark greenish brown with a paler, biarcuate postmedial and a diagnostic oblique whitish streak antemedially that arises on the costa and extends to the middle of the wing. The female lamella vaginalis bears two pairs of setose lobes.

Geographical range. Sumatra (Kerinchi, 2000m), Borneo, N. Burma.

Habitat preference. One specimen was taken during the Mulu survey at 900m in lower montane forest on G. Api, and two were taken in upper montane forest at 1670m on Bukit Pagon, Brunei.

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