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Subgenus Platypeplus Walsingham, 1887, new status 



Platypeplus Walsingham, 1887, in Moore, Lepidoptera Ceylon, vol. 3, p. 495. 

 Platypeplum. — Walsingham, 1899, Indian Mus. Notes, vol. 4, p. 105 (emend.). 



Type species: Eccopsis aprobola Meyrick, 1886 (Tonga). 



Key to the Philippine Species of Subgenus Platypeplus 



1. Forewing with a conspicuous black central spot H. (P.) mormopa 



Forewing without such spot H. (P.) aprobola 



Hedya (Platypeplus) aprobola (Meyrick, 1886), new combination 



Figure 523 



Eccopsis aprobola Meyrick, 1886, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 275 (cf ?, 

 Tonga). — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepioloptera . . . Meyrick, 

 vol. 1, p. 51. 



Platypeplus aprobola. — Walsingham, 1887, in Moore, Lepidoptera Ceylon, vol. 3, 

 p. 495, pi. 208, fig. 2. — Clarke, 1958, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . , . 

 Meyrick, vol. 3, p. 572, pi. 285, figs. 1, la (type cT, genit. illustr.). 



Argyroploce aprobola. — Meyrick, 1910, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 5, p. 218; 1911, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 36, p. 275; 1911, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 London, Zool. ser. 2, vol. 14, p. 269; 1914, Ent. Mitt., Suppl., vol. 3, p. 49.— 

 Fletcher, 1917, Rep. Proc. Second Ent. Meeting Pusa, p. 219, 230, 267; 1920, 

 Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, pp. 57, 200. — Meyrick, 1929, 

 in de Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 98, p. 719. — Fletcher, 1932, Imp. 

 Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., no. 2, p. 27, pi. 18, figs. 1-3. — Kalshoven, 

 1950, Plagen Cultuurgew. Indonesia, vol. 1, p. 394. — Diakonoflf, 1953, 

 Verh. Ned. Akad. Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 49, no. 3, p. 106. 



Distribution: India, Ceylon, Seychelles, Amirante Is., Chagos 

 Is., Java, Tonkin, Formosa, New Guinea, Queensland, Tonga, 

 Tahiti, Society Is. and Austral Is. Probably a mixture of several 

 local species or subspecies. 



Foodplants: Numerous species of trees and shrubs. 



Material examined: Mindanao, Davao Prov., east slope of Mt. 

 McKmley, 4500 ft., 30.VIII.1946 (CNHM Philippine Exped. 1946^7, 

 H. Hoogstraal), 1 cf , genit. shde 5735. 



Hedya {Platypeplus) mormopa (Meyrick, 1906), new combination 



Figure 520 



Platypeplus mormopa Meyrick, 1906, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 17, 



p. 136 (cf, Ceylon). — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . 



Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 211. 

 Argyroploce mormopa. — Meyrick, 1926, Sarawak Mus. Joiu-n., vol. 3, p. 152. — 



Fletcher, 1932, Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Men., no. 2, p. 31. 

 Olethreutes mormopa. — Clarke, 1958, Catalogue . • . Microlepidoptera . . . 



Meyrick, voL 3, p. 531, pi. 264, figs. 2-2a (lectotype design., genit., wing 



figured) . 



Distribution: Ceylon, India, Borneo, Tonkin. 



