Diomea absorbens Walker

Corsa absorbens Walker, [1863] 1864, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 166.

Diagnosis

The forewing facies is diagnostic, the wing almost entirely filled by a pale brown patch that is edged whitish except where it meets the distal and dorsal margins. The base, apex and tornus are dark brown. The hindwing is almost uniform, unlike Diomea orbifera Walker or Diomea triangulata sp. n..

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The holotype female was taken by A.R. Wallace in Sarawak. Only one other female is known, from near Pontianak (see the holotype of Diomea roydsi) in the lowlands of Kalimantan.

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