''Epicopeia battaka'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

Epicopeiidae Epicopeiidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, ...

. It was described by

Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn (16 June 1838, Braunschweig – 1 October 1913, Florence) was a German zoologist, entomologist, and malacologist.Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011)''2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed.'', 936 pp ...

in 1895. It is found on

Sumatra Sumatra () is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the list of islands by area, sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km2 (182,812 mi. ...

and

Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Malaya and also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the list of isla ...

.Kishida, Y. & Endo, T. (1999)
"Two new subspecies of ''Epicopeia battaka'' (Lepidoptera, Epicopeiidae)"
''Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan''. 50(1): 48-50.

Subspecies

*''Epicopeia battaka battaka'' (northern Sumatra) *''Epicopeia battaka dempona'' Kishida & Endo, 1999 (southern Sumatra) *''Epicopeia battaka malayana'' Kishida & Endo, 1999 (Peninsular Malaysia)

References

* Moths described in 1895 Epicopeiidae {{Geometroidea-stub