Loepa diehli male, 85mm, Mt. Sanggul, Sumatra, Indonesia,
December, 1200m, courtesy of Ron Brechlin.
Loepa diehli male, 88mm, Mt. Sanggul, Sumatra, Indonesia,
December, 1200m, courtesy of Ron Brechlin.
TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
"Asian Spring Blossoms" |
The single male specimen with forewing length of 50mm is considerably larger than L. javanica from Sumatra (38-45mm) and Jawa (40-42mm).
The oval forewing ocellus is very large with the pm line tangential to it. The forewing outer margin is slightly concave and quite oblique, giving the forewing a thin elongate look with a rounded apex. The greyish-pink apical patch is reduced and very light in colour, offering little contrast to the yellow ground colour.
The am line is doubled with a pinkish white inside. It returns to the inner margin rather than to the body along the inner margin.
Loepa sumatrana (fw length: 40-52mm) has a more circular forewing ocellus, compared to diehli, and Loepa megacore in Sumatra is a larger moth with forewing length of 55-65mm.
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