Image of Artigisa nigrosignata Walker  ♀

Artigisa nigrosignata Walker 

*Artigisa nigrosignata Walker, [1863] 1864,J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 160.

Homoptera catenata Moore, 1887,Lep. Ceylon, 3: 550.

Panilla apicalis Butler, 1889,Illust. typical Specimens lepid. Heterocera Colln Br. Mus., 7: 74.*

Diagnosis

The ground of the wings is straw-colour, variegated with medium brown. There are fine, wavy, black postmedials, that of the forewing obscured anteriorly by an oblique, diffusely edged black bar that cuts off the apex.

Geographical range

Borneo, Sri Lanka, India.

Habitat preference

The only Bornean specimen known is the holotype of nigrosignata (in UM Oxford). It was taken by A.R. Wallace in Sarawak, probably in the lowlands.

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