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Lopharthrum
comprimens Walker
Amphigonia
comprimens Walker,
1858, List
Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 15: 1540.
Eriocera
cluysenaeri Heylaerts, 1888, Annls Soc. ent. Belg.,
33: lxi.
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Lopharthrum
comprimens 
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Diagnosis.
See the generic description. The somewhat reticulate, rufous, cream and white
patches on the diffusely more darkly fasciated grey ground are distinctive in
combination with the general wing shape with angled distal margins.
Geographical
range. Indian Subregion to New Guinea and Solomons.
Habitat
preference. The species is rare. Three specimens were recorded in lower
montane forest at 1000m on G. Mulu, but the only two other specimens are from
the coast at Kota Kinabalu in Sabah and from 15m in dry heath forest on sand
near Telisai in Brunei.
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