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Bastilla
maturescens Walker
Ophisma
maturescens Walker,
1858, List
Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 14: 1382.
Parallelia
maturescens Walker;
Holloway, 1976: 30.
Diagnosis.
The central zone of the forewing is distinguished by gradual changes from dark
to pale violet-brown from the postmedial to the antemedial; there is not a
distinct boundary medially with an abrupt change from dark to pale. Distal to
the postmedial the wing is paler, and basal to the antemedial it is darker.
Geographical
range. Indian Subregion, Indochina, Thailand (VK), Sumatra, Java,
Borneo.
Habitat
preference. The species is uncommon, records being restricted to the two
specimens recorded in cultivated areas with forest at Tuaran (10m) and Kundasan
(1050m) on G. Kinabalu (Holloway, 1976) and two more from lowland forest at 400m
near Bedawan in Brunei.
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