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Acolutha flavipictaria Prout

Acolutha flavipictaria Prout, 1922, Novit. zool., 29: 349.

Acolutha poiensis Prout, 1926, Sarawak. Mus. J., 3: 180.

Acolutha flavipictaria Prout; Holloway, 1976: 74.

Diagnosis

The white ground colour is entirely shaded yellow, and the red shading is somewhat more extensive than in pictaria, but always with some yellow distal to the postmedials.

Geographical Range

Indian Subregion; Borneo (ssp. poiensis).

Habitat Preference

This is the least recorded of Bornean Acolutha, with two specimens taken on Mt. Poi at around 1500m and one on G. Kinabalu at 1620m.

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Species (3)


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