Image of Pasiphila rufogrisea Holloway ♂

Pasiphila rufogrisea Holloway comb. n.

Chloroclystis rufogrisea Holloway, 1976: 69.

Diagnosis

The forewings are variably brownish grey, finely and regularly fasciated with black and brown, a paler ochreous grey band running distal to the postmedial. The forewing and body are tinged rufous-ochreous, the head and thorax most clearly of this colour. The fasciation is somewhat reminiscent of species in Syncosmia Warren, but the colour is distinctive.

Geographical Range

Borneo.

Habitat Preference

The species is frequent on G. Kinabalu over a range of 1620m to 2110m. Two specimens have been taken on G. Mulu at 1780m.

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Species (8)


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