Daona mansueta Walker

Daona mansueta Walker, 1864, J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 7: 190.

Bocana digramma Walker, [1866] 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 34: 1170.

Bocana erubescens Walker, [1866] 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 34: 1170.

Catada? detersalis Walker, [1866] 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 34: 1175.

Gauzania mundalis Walker, [1866] 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 34: 1208.

Thermesia? scitula Walker, [1866] 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 35: 1973, praeocc.

Ozarba alopecodes Meyrick, 1902, Trans. ent. Soc. London, 1902: 35.

Diagnosis

The facies is superficially similar to some Rivula species in the fawn ground colour, and the oblique medial dark shade and dark marginal zone to the forewing. However, these overlie a more extensive series of fine, oblique, slightly wavy, faint reddish brown fasciae that also recur more lightly on the hindwing. The oblique medial shade is associated with the two of these fasciae that run just distal to the discal mark; the discal mark consists of two black dots.

Geographical Range

Borneo, Indian Subregion, Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, Philippines, Sumbawa, Seram, New Guinea, Australia.

Habitat Preference

Older material is from lowland localities. In recent surveys a specimen has been taken in an area of forest at Semongok, near Kuching, and three were recorded in dry heath forest at 15m in the Telisai area of Brunei.

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