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Hypsopygia postflava
Hypsopygia postflava is a species of snout moth in the genus Hypsopygia. It was described by George Hampson in 1893 and is known from Sri Lanka.
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Description
The species was described by George Hampson in 1893 from a specimen collected in Sri Lanka. The moth has no common name in English but is called ウスムラサキシマメイガ in Japanese.
Range & habitat
Hypsophygia postflava has been documented in India, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Japan, and Sri Lanka.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 734464.