Borbotana nivifascia Walker

Borbotana nivifascia Walker, 1858, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 15: 1651.

Choluata eburneifera Walker, 1864, J . Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool) 7: 57.

Heterochroma leucographa Snellen, 1877, Tijdschr. Ent. 20: 70.

Borbotana nivifascia tumefacta Warren, 1913, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 11: 167.

Borbotana nivifascia longidens Prout, 1926, Entomologist, 59: 66.

Image of [object Object] Walker ♂

Diagnosis

The black and white forewing facies is unmistakable.

Taxonomic Note

Borbotana n**ivifascia was reared from a larva feeding on an unidentified fern in Peninsular Malaysia (H.S. Barlow, pers. comm.).

Genitalia:


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