Image of Selca latifascialis Walker ♂ (holotype, in UM, Oxford)
♂ (holotype, in UM, Oxford)

Selca latifascialis Walker comb. rev.

Selca latifascialis Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 34: 1219.

Diagnosis

The forewings are pale grey with a broad rufous and blackish medial band bounded by a curved (concave basad) antemedial border and an oblique (parallel to the distal margin) postmedial one that is almost straight.

There are diffuse, darker grey submarginal markings.

The hindwings are a darker grey than the ground of the forewings.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The species is only known from the holotype, taken in Sarawak by A.R. Wallace, probably in the lowlands.


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