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Acolutha flavivitta Holloway

Acolutha flavivitta Holloway, 1976: 74.

Diagnosis

The species resembles flavipictaria in size and general colouration, but is more extensively suffused with red, especially distal to the postmedials where yellow ground colour is virtually absent.

Geographical Range

Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo.

Habitat Preference

All records are from montane forest, those in Borneo over 1500-1930m on G. Kinabalu and at 1618m on Bukit Retak in Brunei. Two specimens in colln Herbulot are from 1200m on G. Kinabalu (Kundasang) and 1400m in the Crocker Range 26km north of Keningau.

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Species (3)


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