Besida xylinata Walker
Besidaxylinata Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 32: 456.
Besidaxylinata Walker;Kiriakoff 1968: 39.
Diagnosis
The rather oblong forewings and fine transverse lines are seen also in Blakeia marmorata Kiriakoff (below), but xylinata is generally darker, with a grey bar bisecting the forewing tornal angle; marmorata has submarginal dark speckling on the forewing and a rather broken, transverse antemedial, often in the form of an ‘X’.
Geographical range
Thailand, Sundaland, Sulawesi, Philippines.
Habitat preference
Infrequent in most lowland rain forest types.
Biology
A recorded host-plant is Erythrina in the Leguminosae (Pholboon 1965).
Genitalia:
