Dordura aliena Walker

Hypaetra aliena Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 33: 964.

Dordura apicalis Moore, 1882, Descr. new Indian lepid. Insects Colln W.S. Atkinson

Diagnosis

See the generic description. The female is a much darker and more uniform mauve-grey than the male but with similar fasciation and trapezoidal subapical costal mark on the forewing. The reniform is entangled in the postmedial, and the orbicular is a dark dot in an otherwise unmarked band, distinctly paler in the male in the medial zone.

Taxonomic notes

The new synonym, modesta Roepke, is based on a female of aliena, but has previously been placed in Avatha Walker (Poole, 1989; see also p. 90).

Geographical range

Indian Subregion, Burma, Thailand (VK), Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra (HS / ZSM), Borneo, New Guinea.

Habitat preference

The species ranges from the lowlands to 1930m and has been taken in localities with undisturbed forest through to those with extensive cultivation.

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