Mixochlora argentifusa Walker

Geometra argentifusa Walker, 1861, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 22: 526.

Image of [object Object] Walker ♂

Diagnosis

See Mixochlora vittata Moore.

Geographical range

Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference

Recent material seen is all from Brunei: three specimens from hill dipterocarp forest at 300m, Ulu Temburong and one from 15m in dry heath forest at Telisai.

Taxonomic Note

The illustrations of moths and male genitalia of these Mixochlora Warren species are transposed. The transposition of the plates was recorded in Part 5 (p. 155), but that of the genitalia (M.D. Sommerer, pers. comm.) is noted here: fig 168 is argentifusa and fig 169 is vittata.

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Species (1)


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