Asinduma exscripta Walker

Asinduma exscripta Walker, 1864, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 167.

Asinduma exscripta Walker; Holloway, 1976: 21; Kobes, 1997: 19.

Diagnosis

The bright green forewings, with a distal semicircular zone containing fine black and reddish brown zig-zags, are diagnostic.

Geographical range

Borneo,Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra.

Habitat preference

The species is found, often commonly, from the lowlands to about 1800m and more rarely above that to 2110m. It persists in secondary forest and plantation (Chey, 1994).

Biology

In Peninsular Malaysia the species has been reared by W.A. Nässig from Saraca (Leguminosae).

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