Image of Xenochroa plesiogramma Prout ♀

Xenochroa plesiogramma Prout comb. n.

Carea plesiogramma Prout, 1926, Sarawak Mus. J., 3: 228.

Carea zonata Roepke, 1935, Zool. Meded. Leiden, 18: 276, **syn. n.

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Geographical range

Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java.

Habitat preference

The species is as rare as transpurpuralis, with only four specimens taken in recent surveys, but generally at lower altitudes: singletons from heath and dipterocarp forest at 150m in the vicinity of G. Mulu; one from stunted hill forest at 900m on G. Monkobo in Sabah; one from 1620m on G. Kinabalu.

The holotype is from montane forest at about 1300m on G. Penrisen in Sarawak.

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Species (34)


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