45. Hedya iophaea (Meyrick, 1912)

Argyroploce iophaea Meyrick, 1912, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 21: 873. Type locality: Sri Lanka, “ Ceylon [Sri Lanka] ( Maskeliya)”. Lectotype (♂): NHM.

Distribution outside Thailand: Sri Lanka (Meyrick 1912a), Indonesia and Borneo (Diakonoff 1973), China (Kawabe et al. 1992), Japan (Nasu & Komai 2013), Vietnam (Nedoshivina 2013), Korea (Sohn et al. 2015), and Laos (Pinkaew & Phewphanh 2017).

Distribution in Thailand: C–– Nakhon Nayok Prov. (Khao Yai N.P.), E–– Chanthaburi Prov. (Khao Soi Dao W.S.), and N–– Chiang Mai Prov. (Doi Inthanon N.P. and Doi Pakia) (Kawabe 1989).

Host plants: Unknown in Thailand. Caterpillars feed on Theaceae: Eurya japonica (Kawabe 1982) .

Remarks: Specimens from Thailand were collected in moist evergreen forest, dry evergreen forest and hill evergreen forest at 400– 1,500 m.