Spatalia (allata) benderi Dierl

Allata benderi Dierl 1976.

Allata sumatrensis Gaede, sensu Kiriakoff 1960: 8.

Diagnosis

See Spatalia argentifera Walker.

Taxonomic Note

Spatalia racquelae Schintlmeister (1993: 144) replaces benderi in the main Philippines archipelago. Though S & P gave benderi a distribution extending through S.E. Asia to S.E. China, A. Schintlmeister (pers. comm., 2010) now considers it to be restricted to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

Geographical range

Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines.

Habitat preference

The species is infrequent, known from a variety of lowland forest types, three out of nine specimens taken in the Mulu survey being from kerangas forest.

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