Ambadra rafflesi Moore

Eumeta rafflesi Moore, 1859, in Horsfield & Moore, Cat lepid Insects in Mus. Hon. E. India Co. 2: 430.

Ambadra rafflesi Moore; Kiriakoff1968: 93; Holloway 1982a: 206.

Diagnosis

The forewing is more pinkish-fawn than in other Bornean congeners, more uniform, less heavily striated.

Taxonomic notes

The genus Ambadra was reviewed by Holloway (1982a). Bornean specimens are attributed to ssp. borneensis Roepke.

Geographical range

Sundaland, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference

The species has been taken infrequently in a wide range of lowland, mainly forested, habitats including dry heath forest; a single specimen was taken at 1618 m on Bukit Retak, Brunei.

Biology

CIE records state the larva feeds on Elaeis guineensis (oil palm, introduced) in Malaysia.

Taxonomic Note

Schintlmeister (1994b: 221) noted wide variation in features of the male genitalia of Ambadra rafflesi and suggested that a species complex might be involved. He treated Ambadra as a good genus in this work and in S & P (2007), but earlier (Schintlmeister 1993: 189) placed it as a subgenus of Turnaca Walker.