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Leucoma impressa
Leucoma impressa is a moth in the family of Erebidae, they are according to inaturalist map located in Buthan, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. However this spotting is from the central southern mountains of Sri Lanka.
Sinharaja Forest Reserve is one of the last primary rainforests in Sri Lanka and is a biodiversity hotspot, it was established as a World Biosphere Reserve in 1978, and a World Heritage site in 1988 by UNESCO. More than 60% of the trees are endemic, it's also home to 50% of Sri Lanka's endemic species of animals and 95% of the endemic birds of the country. Surrounded in dense fog, the dangerous, dark and mysterious Sinharaja forest is steeped in deep legend and mystery. The word Sinharaja means lion- (සිංහ/சிங்கம் sinha) king or kingdom (රාජ/ராஜா raja), and a popular folk legend has it that a legendary lion lived in this protected forest. 60% of the forest is contained within the border of Rathnapura District, 20% in the Galle District, and 20% in Kaluthara District. The forest is likely to have formed during the Jurassic era and spans over an area of 360 km², it is the most dense rainforest in Asia with 240,000 plants per hectare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinharaja_...
This one was hard to differentiate between L. impressa and L. clara, the difference I noticed is that L. clara didn't possess the white stripes of their frontal legs as my spotting, L. impressa do. If I'm wrong about this, please give me a notice.
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