Avitta discipuncta Felder & Rogenhofer

Sympis discipuncta Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874, Reise öst. Fregatte Novara, Lep. Het.: pl. 118, fig. 11.

Avitta pastea Hampson, 1902, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc., 14: 217.

Ceromacra dinawa Bethune-Baker, 1906, Novit. zool., 13: 285.

Diagnosis

The forewings are rather deeper than in other species, with the tornus rounded and grading into a more pronounced convexity of the dorsum. The forewing colour is a slightly golden brown rather than a vinous or greyish brown, and the fasciation is more finely etched and more regularly crenulate.

Geographical range

N.E. Himalaya to Queensland and Solomons.

Habitat preference

All material is from the lowlands, including forested localities, except for one specimen from stunted hill forest at 1200m on Bukit Monkobo in Sabah.

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