Image of Ptyonota carissima Wileman ♀

Ptyonota carissima Wileman stat. rev.

Carea carissima Wileman & West, 1929, Novit. zool., 35: 20.

Ptyonota rudanga Kobes, 1994, Heterocera Sumatrana, 7: 263, syn. n.

Ptyonota rudanga Kobes; Kobes, 1997: 83.

Diagnosis

See the previous species.

Taxonomic Notes

The abdomen has been lost on the holotype of carissima but the facies indicates it is conspecific with rudanga.

Geographical range

Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Borneo.

Habitat preference

This is slightly commoner than formosa, taken in several lowland forest localities (Labi and Ulu Temburong in Brunei, in alluvial forest near G. Mulu and in the vicinity of the Danum Valley Field Centre). However, one specimen was taken at 1618m on Bukit Retak in Brunei.

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