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Scopula inficita Walker 

Acidalia inficita Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 35: 1630.

Scopula inficita philippina Prout, 1931, Novit. zool., 37: 1.

Diagnosis

This and S. actuaria Walker are two of the smallest of the straw/fawn coloured species, with the fasciae relatively straight. The wings of inficita are narrower, the fasciae straighter, the postmedials lacking the black flecks seen in actuaria.

Geographical Range

Flores, Bali, Timor, Pura, Tenimber; Philippines, Borneo (ssp. philippina).

Habitat Preference

Only three specimens have been located, the holotype, probably from the lowlands of Sarawak, one from Labuan I. and the other with no altitude data collected by Waterstradt on G. Kinabalu.

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