Cleora isabella Herbulot

Taxonomic Note

The late C. Herbulot notified the author (1996, in litt.) that he had in his collection female specimens of two further Cleora species: C. costiplaga Fletcher (taken by J. Haxaire at Batu 18 (850m) on the Ranau‐Tambunan road) and C. isabella Herbulot (two tentatively identified, taken by J. Devecis at 1400m, 26km north of Keningau, probably in the Crocker Range). This material should be with his collection in ZSM, Munich. C. costiplaga is a species of New Guinea, the Bismarck Is. and Queensland, so it would be unwise to record it from Borneo on the basis of a single female. C. isabella was described from Palawan, so could well occur also in Borneo. A photograph of one specimen appears to match one of the holotype of isabella closely. The original type (Herbulot, 1985) series of three is entirely female also.

Geographic Range

Palawan, ?Borneo.

Habitat Preference

(Montane).