Image of Penicillaria meeki Bethune-Baker ♂ (Sumatra)
♂ (Sumatra)

Penicillaria meeki Bethune-Baker

Penicillaria meeki Bethune-Baker, 1906, Novit. zool. 13: 231.

Diagnosis

The forewing is relatively uniform dark red with an oblique, slightly curved double pale antemedial, narrower than in maculata, and two longitudinal, diverging pale streaks distal to it.

There is no subtornal pale blue marking.

Geographical range

Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, New Guinea, Bismarcks, Solomons, Fiji, Samoa.

Habitat preference

This is unknown, only one specimen from Borneo having been located, from Kuching in Sarawak.

Genitalia:

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Species (5)


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