Image of Catocala macula Hampson ♂

Catocala macula Hampson

Ulotrichopus macula Hampson; Holloway, 1976: 28; Kobes, 1985: 24.

Diagnosis

The facies is unmistakable, the cryptic grey forewings having a bark-like pattern as in the temperate Catocala, but with pale yellow flash coloration on the hindwings, broken by a dark, dull, blackish brown border and discal patch.

Geographical range

Indian Subregion, Taiwan, Thailand (VK), Sundaland; Sulawesi, Seram (ssp. reducta).

Habitat preference

The species is rare, montane, recorded twice in recent surveys at 1930m on G. Kinabalu and at 1500m on G. Api.

Genitalia:


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