Plutodes moultoni Prout

Stüning (2005a; M.D. Sommerer, pers. comm.) recorded the only material of Plutodes moultoni from Borneo so far located. It was collected by J. Haxaire at 1300m in the Crocker Range on the Keningau to Kimanis road, and is now in the Herbulot Collection in ZSM, Munich. The species occurs otherwise in Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra and extends north to Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan (Stüning, 2010). Stüning (2005a, 2010) has also described new taxa from the Philippines (hermanowskii Stüning in Luzon and magdelinae Stüning in Mindanao) and Sulawesi (thorbeni Stüning), all from the costatus Butler group. The validity of these species is supported by DNA barcoding evidence.

Geographical range

S. China (Yunnan), Vietnam, Thailand, Sundaland.

Habitat preference

(Montane).