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Asota javana Cramer

Phalaena javana Cramer, 1780, Uitl. Kapellen 3 :146.

Asota fiaviventris Rothschild, 1897, Novit. Zool. 4 : 332

Diagnosis

The wings are dark brown with yellow edging, the forewings with large and conspicuous white stigmata within the brown. The abdomen is black with a yellow apex.

Geographical range

Sundaland, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sula Is.

Habitat preference

The species is infrequent, taken from the lowlands to the lower montane forest zone.

Genitalia:

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Species (8)


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