Zeuzera caudata Joicey & Talbot

Zeuzera caudata Joicey & .Talbot, 1916, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) ,17: 88.

Zeuzera rhabdota Jordan, 1932, Mem. Mus. Hist. nat. Belg. 4(6), hors serie: 24.

Zeuzera caudata rhabdota Jordan; Roepke, 1955: 283; Holloway, 1976: 88 ; Barlow, 1982: 43.

Diagnosis

The forewings are pale grey, very finely striated with darker grey, more intensely basally and medially. The hindwings are pale grey with striae that are only very faint.

Geographical Range

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi.

Habitat Preference

The only Bornean specimen seen was from mangrove in Brunei.

Taxonomic Notes

Further material of kalisi from Sulawesi in the BMNH indicates that the features of distinction noted by Roepke are unreliable, therefore it is placed as a synonym of euphyes.

Yakovlev (2004a) and Yakovlev & Witt (2009) have treated Zeuzera rhabdota Jordan as a good species rather than as a subspecies of caudata, whereas Schoorl (1990) followed the latter course, also including celebensis Roepke as a synonym.

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