SUBFAMILY DREPANINAE
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Tridrepana subtusmaculata Gaede  
   
Tridrepana septempunctata f. subtusmaculata Gaede, 1933, Bull. Mus. Hist. nat. Belg., 9 (43):
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    Tridrepana subtusmaculata Gaede; Watson, 1957: 461; Holloway, 1976: 93.


Tridrepana subtusmaculata


Tridrepana subtusmaculata


Diagnosis.
The forewings are very strongly falcate and dark brown with white lunules at the apex, and diagnostically suffused rufous orange over the basal three quarters.

Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo.

Habitat preference. This is the rarest of the Bornean species, with four specimens from lowland forest at Ulu Temburong (300m), two from 1465m and 1618m on Bukit Retak in Brunei, and one from 1050m at Kundasang on the south slopes of G. Kinabalu.

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