Image of Pantana melantera Collenette ♂ (holotype, Peninsular Malaysia)
♂ (holotype, Peninsular Malaysia)
Image of Pantana melantera Collenette ♀

Pantana melantera Collenette

Laelia melantera Collenette, 1932, Novit. zool., 38: 83.

Diagnosis

Both sexes are a paler, more cinnamon-brown than lithosioides, with deeper forewings. The female has the hindwings paler than the forewing. Both sexes have the spots around the forewing cell only slightly darker. The male genitalia are similar to those of adara, but the uncus is more robust.

Geographical range

Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo.

Habitat preference

The only specimen is a female from Samarinda in the lowlands of S.E. Kalimantan.

Genitalia:

Related species:

Species (2)


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