Image of Numenes contrahens Walker ♂
Image of Numenes contrahens Walker ♀

Numenes contrahens Walker

Numenes contrahens Walker, 1862, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 6:122.

Numenes siletti delta Strand, 1915, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 10: 317, syn. n.

Numenes siletti delta Strand; Holloway, 1976: 51.

Diagnosis

See Numenes insignis Moore stat. rev.

Taxonomic Notes

The taxon delta is based on the female of contrahens, sharing the forewing facies of the male. N. insolita Schultze (Palawan) may be only a subspecies of contrahens.

Geographical range

Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo; ?Palawan.

Habitat preference

Only four specimens have been taken in recent surveys: from 300m in the Ulu Temburong, Brunei; from 250m and 900m on the limestone G. Api, Sarawak; and from 1050m at Kundasan on G. Kinabalu.

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Species (1)


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