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Hamodes
lutea Walker
Ophisma
lutea Walker,
[1863] 1864, J.
Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 180.
Ophisma
amabilis Walker,
1869, Char.
undescr. Lep. Heterocera, p. 91.
Kalmina
ochracea Swinhoe, 1891, Trans. ent. Soc. London,
1891: 480.
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Hamodes
lutea  |
Hamodes
lutea |
Diagnosis.
Both sexes are similar to males of propitia but with the forewings slightly less falcate. The
postmedials of fore- and hindwings have the paler element whitish and the whole
fascia is flanked on each side by an irregular area of rosy-mauve suffusion.
Males have the anterior part of the hindwing strongly expanded and bearing
androconial scales; this area interacts with a large buff hair pencil on the
underside of the forewing cell.
Geographical
range. N.E. Himalaya, Thailand (VK), Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra,
Borneo.
Habitat
preference. Records have been infrequent and localised in recent surveys:
seven specimens from alluvial forest at 70m and three from lower montane forest
at 1000m on G. Mulu; two from 1618m on Bukit Retak in Brunei.
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