Image of Oreta carnea Butler ♂
Image of Oreta carnea Butler ♂

Oreta carnea Butler

Agnidra carnea Butler, 1892, Proc. zool. soc. Lond., 1892: 125.

Drepana berenica Swinhoe, 1893, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6), 12: 258.

Cobanilla hepaticata Warren, Cobanilla cardinalis Warren, 1897, Novit. zool., 4 :13.

Oreta carnea Butler; Holloway, 1976: 92.

Diagnosis

This is one of the smallest Bornean species, variable, with fasciation diffusely darker on dull medium to dark red forewings.

There are usually two blackish submarginal spots at the forewing tornus.

The antennae are narrowly bipectinate.

Geographical range

Sundaland.

Habitat preference

This is by far the commonest Bornean Oreta, occurring from the lowlands to about 1600m, mostly in forest but including secondary forest.

Biology

The species has been reared from Uncaria (Rubiaceae) in Malaysia (Yunus & Ho, 1980; Zhang, 1994).

Genitalia:

Related species:

Species (7)


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