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Marapana pulverata Guenée 

Sanys pulverata Guenée, 1852, Hist. Nat. Insectes, Spec. gén. Lépid. 7: 351.

Hypena raralis Walker, [1859]1858, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 16: 65.

Hypena truncatalis Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 34: 1513.

Marapana bilineata Bethune-Baker, 1908, Novit. zool., 15: 226.

Marapana pulverata Guenée sensu Holloway, 1976: 38.

Diagnosis

See the generic description and the diagnosis of the next species.

Geographical range

Sri Lanka, India, Thailand (VK), Burma, Andamans, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram, New Guinea.

Habitat preference

Only four Bornean specimens have been seen, one from Sarawak without precise data, one from 250m in lowland forest on the limestone.

G. Api during the Mulu survey and one from 85 miles above (upstream from?) Pontianak in Kalimantan. The fourth (with three more recorded; S.J. Willott, unpublished data) was from lowland forest at 170m near the Danum Valley Field Centre. Chey (1994) recorded four in his survey of lowland softwood plantations in Sabah.

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