Nyctemera latistriga Walker

Nyctemera latistriga Walker, 1854, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus., 2: 397.

Nyctemera latistriga Walker; Roepke, 1949: 55; 1957: 153; Holloway, 1976: 5.

Diagnosis

See N. baulus and *N. lacticinia. This is the smallest of these rather similar species, distinguished by a broad white streak at the base of the forewing subdorsally just posterior to the cell.

Geographical range

Oriental tropics east to the Philippines and Lombok.

Habitat preference

Records from Borneo have been infrequent, mainly in open habitats from the lowlands up to 1200m.

Biology

The species is day-flying.

Genitalia: