Paralebeda lucifuga Swinhoe

Metanastrialucifuga Swinhoe, 1892, Cat. Eastern & Australian lepid. Heterocera colln Oxford Univ. Mus., 1: 264

Odonestismalayica Swinhoe, 1915, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8). 16: 178.

Paralebedalucifuga Swinhoe; Holloway, 1976: 89; Lajonquière, 1980: 25; Holloway, 1982:197.

Diagnosis

The species is smaller than the next and is separated from all congeners by the straight posterior border, parallel to the dorsum, of the dark zone within the medial loop of the forewing.

The male genitalia have spine-like socii on the tegumen, and the cubile arms are slender.

Geographical range

Sundaland.

Habitat preference

Infrequent in lowland forest.

Biology

The species was reared from Melastoma on G. Kinabalu (Holloway. 1976). Yunus & Ho (1980) gave Nephelium (Sapindaceae) and Coffea (Rubiaceae) as host-plants.

Genitalia: