Image of Sauris contorta Warren  ♂ (Penang)
♂ (Penang)
Image of Sauris contorta Warren  ♀ (Perak)
♀ (Perak)

Sauris contorta Warren 

Remodes contorta Warren, 1897, Novit. zool., 4: 232.

Diagnosis

The forewings are darkly fasciated, with an angle to the postmedial as in S. eupitheciata, but there is a squarish buff zone subapically on the costa that is diagnostic and, in the male, a white ovate patch subtornally. The male hindwings are white with distal lobing of the same colour: those of the female are pale grey.

Geographical Range

Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo.

Habitat Preference

A male was taken in lower montane forest at 900m on G. Api, Sarawak, and there is a female in BMNH from inland of Pontianak in Kalimantan.

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Species (15)


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