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Episparis exprimens Walker

Episparis exprimens Walker, 1862, Trans ent. Soc. Lond. (3), 1: 106.

Pradiota sejunctata Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 35: 1572.

Episparis sejunctalis Moore, 1867, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1865: 81.

Diagnosis

See the previous species.

Geographical range

India, Burma, Sundaland, Sumbawa, Philippines, Sulawesi, Seram.

Habitat preference

All records are from lowland forest, none above 500m, and the species appears to occur more in disturbed and secondary forest than costristriga, though it was never as common as the latter in such habitats in the samples made in Sabah by Chey (1994).

Genitalia:

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Species (4)


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