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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