SUBFAMILY PLUSIINAE
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Chrysodeixis iluminata Robinson  
   
Plusia illuminata
Robinson, 1968, Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 80: 250.
   
Chrysodeixis nesiotes Dufay, 1974: 106, ?syn. n.
   
Chrysodeixis illuminata Robinson; Holloway, 1979: 481.


Chrysodeixis iluminata (Timor)


Diagnosis. See Chrysodeixis eriosoma Doubleday.

Geographical range. Throughout the Indo-Australian tropics to as far east as Samoa.

Habitat preference. Only one Bornean specimen has been located. In New Caledonia the species was more strongly associated with rainforest than eriosoma (Holloway 1979).

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