Anoratha paritalis Walker

Hypena paritalis Walker, [1859] 1858, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 16: 65.

Anoratha paritalis Walker; Holloway, 1976: 40.

Diagnosis

There is some sexual dimorphism, males having narrower, darker, less ochreous, more apically produced brown forewings than females, and also more narrow hindwings with a rather lobed dorsum (see generic description) and modified scaling. The forewings have a thin, transverse, black fascia running from just short of the tornus on the dorsum to the costa at two thirds. The wing is slightly paler distal to this, with some additional white highlighting in the male. There is an irregular row of black submarginal marks.

Geographical range

Sri Lanka, India, Japan, ?Peninsular Malaysia (Barlow colln), Borneo, Sulawesi, New Guinea, New Caledonia (Holloway, 1979)

Habitat preference

All records are from G. Kinabalu from 1620m to 2110m; the species is uncommon.

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