Hypolamprus ocellipennis Warren

Taxonomy

The female paralectotype from Lower Burma is imaged. The female holotype of Banisia ocellipennis (Warren, 1908:327) from Upper Burma [Myanmar] is in the NHM (Mi7375).

ms comb. n. to Hypolamprus (Shaffer, 1992 LepIndex).

Description

A species with a falcate FW, which has large red-brown areas mainly basally and extending irregularly along the costa to join with a very broad median fascia. The rest of the wings are pale with a brown reticulated pattern. The HW has an irregular median band, slightly expanded at the wing margins.

Similar Species

The patterning resembles some Canaea species (e.g. C. semitessellata). See also Plates