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Agathia rubrilineata Warren

Agathia rubrilineata Warren, 1896, Novit. zool. 3: 362.

Agathia ithearia Swinhoe, 1905, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 15 : 166, syn. n.

Agathia aequisecta Swinhoe, 1906, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 17: 380.

Agathia klossi Prout, 1931, Novit. zool. 37: 5.

Diagnosis

See Agathia deliciosa Holloway & Sommerer. The green patches have a more marked pale edging than in other species.

Taxonomic Notes

The suggestion of Prout (1932, Gross-Schmett. Erde 12: 71) that ithearia is an aberrant female of rubrilineata is considered to be correct: the genitalia match those of the holotype female of aequisecta. The valves of the male genitalia of rubrilineata and ssp. aequisecta were illustrated by Holloway & Sommerer (1984).

Geographical Range

Borneo, Sumatra; Siberut (ssp. klossi); Java (ssp. aequisecta).

Habitat Preference

Only two specimens have been taken in recent surveys, at 500m (hill dipterocarp forest) and 1000m (lower montane forest) on G. Mulu.

Genitalia:

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Species (15)


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