Image of Cyana perornata Walker  ♂ (approx. lifesize)
♂ (approx. lifesize)

Cyana perornata Walker 

Bizone perornata Walker, 1854, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 2: 548.

Chionaema perornata Walker; Holloway, 1976: 3.

Diagnosis

This is the largest of the Bornean species with crimson fasciae edged with black and a marginal band of slightly paler red with a zig-zag inner margin. The discal spot is black and single in both sexes, round in the female, more elliptical in the male.

Geographical Range

N.E. Himalaya, Sundaland.

Habitat Preference

The species is frequent in lowland forest, extending more weakly into lower montane forest up to 1000m.

Genitalia:

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Species (16)


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