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Saroba pustulifera Walker 

Saroba pustulifera Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 33: 1097.

Diagnosis

The extensive whitish blotches basally and postmedially on the forewing are distinctive and much more extensive than in the next species.

Geographical range

Indian Subregion, Hong Kong, Thailand (VK), Sundaland, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference

The species is represented in Borneo by singletons from Bidi in Sarawak and Samarinda in Kalimantan, both lowland localities, in addition to the holotype, taken in Sarawak by A.R. Wallace. The only specimen recorded in recent surveys is from lowland forest in the Barito Ulu of Kalimantan Tengah.

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Species (7)


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