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Cosmophila
lyona Swinhoe comb. rev.
Cosmophila
lyona Swinhoe, 1919, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9),
3: 312.
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Cosmophila
lyona 
(New Caledonia) |
Cosmophila
lyona
(New Caledonia) |
Diagnosis.
See the previous species.
Geographical
range. Indo-Australian tropics east to Australia, New Caledonia and
Norfolk I and north to Okinawa I. (Sugi, 2003).
Habitat
preference. The only Bornean material seen is from Pulo Laut, a low-lying
island to the south-east of the main part of Borneo.
Biology.
Gardner (1947) could not distinguish the larvae of lyona and flava,
so the description of the latter probably also applies to the former. It is
likely also that host plant records for the two are intermingled. Sugi (2003)
noted Sida
(Malvaceae)
as the host plant on Okinawa.
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