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Pantura
ophiusalis Walker
comb. rev.
Bocana
ophiusalis Walker,
[1859] 1858, List
Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 16: 73.
Toxocampa
lunifera Druce; 1888, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.,
1888: 575.
Imleanga
fluviatilis Lucas, 1901, Proc. R. Soc. Qd., 16: 83.
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Pantura
ophiusalis 
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Diagnosis.
The forewings are narrow, elongate as in Avitta and Asta,
a dull, rather pale grey-brown with faint transverse fasciation and
conspicuously darker marks at the reniform (shaped like a hawk in flight) and
submarginaly at the costa (a broad bar). The development of the reniform in the
male is much reduced in material from the Indian Subregion.
Taxonomic
note. Holloway (1979) reviewed the synonymy of this species and its
generic status in relation to Avitta and
Asta
(see
also p. 189).
Geographical
range. Indian Subregion, China, Japan; Sundaland, Sulawesi, Queensland,
Sudest Is., Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia (ssp. lunifera).
Habitat
preference. Two specimens have been recorded from lowland forest in Brunei
during recent surveys at Labi (50-60m) and Ulu Belait (60m). There is older
material from G. Marapok in Sabah.
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