Ramadasa pavo Walker

Chasmina pavo Walker, 1856, List Specimens lepid.Insects Colln Br. Mus.,

9: 147.

Ramadasa pavo Walker; Holloway, 1976: 34; Kobes, 1997: 55.

Diagnosis

This is the largest of the three species, easily distinguished by its pure pale orange-yellow hindwings.

Geographical range

Sri Lanka, India, Andamans, Sundaland, Philippines, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference

Five specimens have been recorded in various types of lowland forest, including heath forest in Brunei, but single specimens were taken at 1200m and 1930m on G. Kinabalu and at 1618m on Bukit Retak.