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Tamba venusta
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SS: Tamba venusta (Hampson, 1898)
Egnasia venusta Hampson, 1898. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society vol.11, pg. 460. TL: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95309#page/570/mode/1up
Yoshimoto, H. 2002. A new and two unrecorded species of Tamba Walker (Noctuidae, Ophiderinae) from Taiwan Tinea 17 (1) : 42-47. Fig. 1 &4.
http://dearlep.tw/species.html?namecode=346787
https://twmoth.tesri.gov.tw/peo/FBMothInfo/251004
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Similar species: Tamba taiwana Yoshimoto, 2002. Extralimital species that has ground colour of wings pale brown, lacks purplish tinge of venusta, has diffuse orange spot outside the postmedial, below subcostal and hindwing postmedial line weakly waved. Yoshimoto (2002), Fig 2.
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Egnasia venusta Hampson, 1898. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society vol.11, pg. 460. TL: Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95309#page/570/mode/1up
Yoshimoto, H. 2002. A new and two unrecorded species of Tamba Walker (Noctuidae, Ophiderinae) from Taiwan Tinea 17 (1) : 42-47. Fig. 1 &4.
http://dearlep.tw/species.html?namecode=346787
https://twmoth.tesri.gov.tw/peo/FBMothInfo/251004
Uploading image of species from Tale.
Similar species: Tamba taiwana Yoshimoto, 2002. Extralimital species that has ground colour of wings pale brown, lacks purplish tinge of venusta, has diffuse orange spot outside the postmedial, below subcostal and hindwing postmedial line weakly waved. Yoshimoto (2002), Fig 2.
JD : agree with ID
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