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Spilosoma
vandepolli Rothschild
Diacrisia vandepolli Rothschild,
1910, Novit. zool. 17: 155.
Spilosoma
vandepolli  (Sumatra)
Spilosoma
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Diagnosis. This is a markedly sexually dimorphic species with fawn antennae, and
brownish forewings that contrast with bright yellow hindwings. The hind-wings
are much darker in the smaller male but both sexes have almost entire rows of
spots on the curved postmedial and antemedial fasciae.
Taxonomic notes. The single Bornean female shows abnormally extensive development of the
hindwing marginal spots (typically as in the Sumatran male illustrated), and
also distinctive clouding of the forewing margin.
Geographical range. Sundaland.
Habitat preference. The single Bornean specimen was taken in lowland rain
forest at Ulu Temburong, Brunei.
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