Maliattha separata Walker

Maliattha separata Walker, 1863, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 27: 86.

Diagnosis

The forewings have a distinctive pattern of a medial, almost triangular trapezoid in dull, dark brown, narrowing to the costa. This is edged whitish, the white grading again into brown on either side, and incorporating a bipunctate blackish discal mark on the distal side within a dentation of the white edge.

Geographical range

Oriental tropics.

Habitat preference

There is a series of old specimens from G. Kinabalu without altitude data collected by Waterstradt. Chey (1994) recorded several in softwood plantations near Brumas in the lowlands of Sabah.