Ecpyrrhorrhoe fulvistriga Swinhoe

Taxonomy

The holotype of Asopia fulvistriga Swinhoe, 1894: 206 is from India, (Assam [Meghalaya], Shillong.

The generic placement of this sp. is uncertain. It has variously been placed in:

• Orphanostigma
• Pagyda
• Paliga

Similar spp. have been included in Ecpyrrhorrhoe which is where we treat it.

All morphospecies like this are best examined genitalicaly as there may be similar, cryptic species.

Description

This is a fairly distinctive morphospecies  with brownish fulvous wings and darker termenal lines and fringes there may be distinct darker striations where the veins approach the termen. . The FW has an indistinct orange basal line, a brown, slightly curved, ante-median line and another brown line starting post medially on the costa but looping to the median area and then to the centre of the anterior margin. There is an elongate brown mark in the disc-ocellular area and a small dot near the base of the cell. The HW  has a sharply  looping line. The middle angles sharply proximaly to continue as a straight medial line fairly close to an indistinct orange basal fascia. The head, thorax and abdomen are mainly orange fulvous with white intersegmenal areas. Schulze taxon #501 ‘Hyalobathra? sp. 3’, Schulze taxon #500 and the damaged morphotype Schulze taxon #500 are almost certainly the same. It is similar to Leucocraspeda [Ecpyrrhorrhoe] auratalis Warren, 1895: 472-3 but the lineation is subtly different.

References

• Schulze, C. H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die Diversität von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany: 350 pp.
• Swinhoe, C. (1894b) XXIX New species of Pyrales from the Khasia Hills. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser 6, 14 (81): 197-210.