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Neocerura liturata Walker

Gerura liturata Walker, 1855, List Specimens lepid. Insects in Colln Br. Mus. 5: 988.

Neocerura liturata Walker;Kiriakoff 1968: 114.

Diagnosis

See Cerura malaysiana Holloway.

Geographical range

Oriental tropics to Sundaland.

Habitat preference

The only Bornean specimens seen are males that were taken in the G. Mulu National Park, in lowland and lower montane forest on the limestone of G. Api.

Biology

The form of the larva is as for the previous species. In India the host range is primirily the family Flacourtiaceae but with records from Populus and Terminalia (Browne 1968). Kalshoven (1981) recorded the species from ‘lobi-lobi’ and wild Flacourtiaceae in Indonesia.

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