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Ercheia
multilinea Swinhoe
Ercheia
multilinea Swinhoe, 1902, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7),
9: 84.
Ercheia
abnormis Swinhoe, 1904, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7),
14: 424.
Ercheia
multilinea Swinhoe; Kobes, 1985: 38.
Ercheia
multilinea 
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Diagnosis.
The species is sexually dimorphic, both sexes being distinctive. Males have most
of the forewing a rosy fawn, with the reniform and a subapical patch picked out
paler; the dorsum is broadly slaty blue-grey with a white streak at the interior
of this zone at two thirds. Females have the forewing longitudinally streaked
with dark brown, fawn and cream, with the reniform ringed cream.
Geographical
range. Sundaland, Philippines, Sulawesi, Seram.
Habitat
preference. The species is infrequent in forest from the lowlands to 1790m,
but is perhaps more often encountered above 1000m.
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