NEOTYPE ♂ Indonesia: Sumatra (N), 15km NE Prapat, HW [Holzweg] IV [sensu Diehl], 1150m, 3-7.1.1994, (R. Brechlin & E.W. Diehl) (ex coll. R. Brechlin) (BOLD BC-RBP 1173) [CTWM]; designated by Brechlin, 2014, Entomo-Satsphingia 7 (2): 17. The original holotype data were “Am. aequin.? [Equatorial America] (coll. Kaden) [coll. Kaden, ?ZISP]” and the queried original type locality is erroneous. Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 542, gave the type locality as "Java" and the depository as "coll. Staudinger" [now MNHU], which is also erroneous. Diehl, [1982], Heterocera Sumatrana 1: 43, failed to find the holotype in the MNHU, and Brechlin, 2014, Entomo-Satsphingia 7 (2): 17, failed to find it in ZISP.
Taxonomic Notes:
Herrich-Schäffer, [1858], Samml. neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereur. Schmett. 1 (1): 59, referred to this species as Panacra scapularis. Implicitly synonymized with Panacra scapularis by Herrich-Schäffer, [1858], Samml. neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereur. Schmett. 1 (1): 59, when he used this name in the text for the species he had illustrated in fig. 479 as Thyreus elegantulus. Synonymized with Panacra mydon as a subspecies by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9 (suppl.): 542. Transferred to Eupanacra by Cadiou & Holloway, 1989, Lambillionea 89: 139. Reinstated as a species by Inoue et al., [1996], Moths of Thailand 2: 77.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
