Antimimistis attenuata Moore

Eupithecia attenuata Moore, 1887, Lep. Ceylon, 3: 479.

Antimimistis illaudata Turner, 1922, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 46: 234.

Antimimistis attenuata melamphaes Prout, 1958, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), 6: 447.

Antimimistis attenuata Moore; Holloway, 1976: 70.

Diagnosis

The wings are rather narrow, dark blackish brown, with a sequence of finely paler fasciae from which darker brown grades paler basad. There are distinctive submarginal pale spots centrally on both fore- and hindwing.

Geographical Range

Sri Lanka, N.E. Himalaya, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram, New Guinea, Queensland.

Habitat Preference

This is a relatively frequent species, taken mostly in forest from the lowlands to 1790m.

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