Image of Ercheia multilinea Swinhoe ♂
Image of Ercheia multilinea Swinhoe ♂

Ercheia multilinea Swinhoe

Ercheia multilinea Swinhoe, 1902, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 9: 84.

Ercheia abnormis Swinhoe, 1904, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 14: 424.

Ercheia multilinea Swinhoe; Kobes, 1985: 38.

Diagnosis

The species is sexually dimorphic, both sexes being distinctive. Males have most of the forewing a rosy fawn, with the reniform and a subapical patch picked out paler; the dorsum is broadly slaty blue-grey with a white streak at the interior of this zone at two thirds. Females have the forewing longitudinally streaked with dark brown, fawn and cream, with the reniform ringed cream.

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Species (4)


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