Image of Euconosia xylinoides Walker ♂

Euconosia xylinoides Walker stat. rev. 

Lithosia xylinoides Walker, 1862, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 6: 107.

Lithosia aspersa Walker, 1862, .J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 6: 104 (partim, ♂ see previous species).

Diagnosis

See the previous species. The main arm of the vesica has a short, conical cornutus at its apex.

Geographical Range

Borneo.

Habitat Preference

The species was taken in numbers in wet heath forest (kerangas) on a river terrace west of the Melinau Gorge during the Mulu survey, and a single male has been taken in dry heath forest near Telisai in Brunei.

Genitalia:

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Species (2)


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