Alex palparia Walker

Panagra palparia Walker, 1861, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 23: 988.

Alex nigrozonata Walker, 1863, Ibid 26: 1754.

Polla rufolinearia Pagenstecher, 1890, Dt. ent. Zeit. Iris, 3: 28.

Alex indica Warren, 1894, Novit. zool., 1: 368.

Alex niasica Swinhoe, 1917, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8), 19: 416.

Alex nephodes West, 1930, Novit. zool., 35 : 264.

Alex palparia Walker; Holloway, 1976: 58.

Diagnosis

See the generic description.

The species resembles a pale brown irrorated version of Noreia with similar fasciation.

A variant has the postmedials absent (e.g. in the type material of niasica).

Geographical range

Himalaya to Sundaland, Philippines, Sumbawa.

Habitat preference

Most light-trap records during the Mulu survey were from lower montane forest, but the species was recorded frequently by day at lower elevations, put up from rest on the forest floor.

The highest records are from 1618m on Bukit Retak, Brunei, and from 1620m on G. Kinabalu.

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