adspersa Felder & Rogenhofer
& Rogenhofer, 1874, Reise öst. Fregatte Novara, Lep. Het.: pl. 117: 23.
zool. Soc. Lond., 1883: 28.
This species is larger than the type species and somewhat similar in size and
facies to “Saroba”
Walker (p. 341), with white dots within
diffuse brown fasciation on a more rufous ground colour. However, it never has
much stronger white triangles on the forewing costa as in maculicosta,
and the postmedials are more regular in course, particularly on the hindwing.
The male genitalia are very different, as illustrated.
note. This species is characterised within the adspersa
by its long, centrally flexed, apically tapering apex, a tongue-like distal
portion to the valve, together with somewhat similar long, sinuous, slender
costal and saccular processes.
range. Sulawesi, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra (HS /
ZSM), Java, Bali, New Guinea (slides 6145, 18399), Solomons.
preference. The species is infrequent, seven out of eight taken in lowland
forest. The eighth was from lower montane forest at 1000m.
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