''Rhinoprora palpata'' is a

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in the family

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. It is found in the Indian subregion,

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

and western China, as well as on

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and

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. The habitat consists of mountainous areas.

Description

Its wingspan is about 24 mm. Palpi with second joint reaching far beyond the frontal tuft. Hindwings with vein 3 from before angle of cell. Hindwings lack tufts or fovea below lower angle of cell. Body grass green with black irrorations and more or less vinous reddish suffusion. Abdomen with black second segment. Forewings with veins speckled with black. A sub-basal line and an antemedial vinous and black band found with a line beyond it. The medial area vinous and black, with a black cell-spot and edged by black lines, the outer edge angled at veins 6 and 4 and with white between those points. There is a postmedial black specks series and a submarginal vinous band found with a black line on it and black inner edge, which outwardly edged by a crenulate white line. Cilia greenish and black. Hindwings with pale fuscous or whitish colored with traces of waved lines on outer area.

Subspecies

*''Rhinoprora palpata palpata'' nominate(India, Sri Lanka, western China) *''Rhinoprora palpata diechusa'' Prout, 1958 *''Rhinoprora palpata javana'' Prout, 1958 (Java) *''Rhinoprora palpata wongi'' Holloway, 1976 (Borneo)

References

Moths described in 1862 Eupitheciini {{Eupitheciini-stub