Image of Oreta singapura Swinhoe ♂
Image of Oreta singapura Swinhoe ♀

Oreta singapura Swinhoe

Oreta singapura Swinhoe, 1892, *Cat. Eastern, Australian Lep. Het. Colln Oxford Univ. Mus.,

  • p. 243.

Cobanilla continua Warren, 1899, Novit. zool., 6: 313.

Oreta dissimilis Warren, O. aurata Warren, O.ustimacula Warren, 1923, *Gross-Schmett. Erde, 10: 482-3.

Holoreta leucospila Joicey & Talbot, 1917, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8), 20: 82.

Oreta singapura kalisi Watson, 1961: 331.

Diagnosis

See O. bicolor.

Geographical range

Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo; Sulawesi (ssp. kalisi); Seram, New Guinea (ssp. continua).

Habitat preference

Four specimens have been taken in lowland forest, including dry heath and swamp forest, but two were taken at high altitude (1618m on Bukit Retak, 1780m on G. Mulu).

Genitalia:

Related species:

Species (7)


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