Image of Ginshachia sumatrensis Gaede ♂

Ginshachia sumatrensis Gaede comb. rev.

Spataloides argentifera sumatrensis Gaede, 1930: 645.

Ginshachia sumatrensis Gaede; Kiriakoff, 1968: 240; Holloway, 1976: 58, fig. 380.

Gaschara dierli Kiriakoff, 1974: 419;

Caschara sumatrensis Gaede; Dierl, 1976.

Diagnosis

The silver triangle on the forewing is approximately equilateral as in bronacha but has satellite silver marks and is set amid mottled dull red markings on a pale yellow ground.

Geographical Range

Sumatra, Borneo.

Habitat Preference

On G. Kinabalu this species was taken in large numbers in the tall montane forest at 1500 m on the Pinosuk Plateau (Mesilau) and twice at similar altitudes on the main transect. It has been taken at 1618 m (upper montane forest) on Bukit Retak but also in mixed dipterocarp forest at 300 m in Ulu Temburong, Brunei. On G. Mulu two specimens were taken in lower montane forest at 1000 m.

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