FAMILY BOMBYCIDAE
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  Ernolatia lida Moore 
Ocinara lida Moore, in Horsfield & Moore, 1858-9: 381.
Ernolatia signata Walker, 1862, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.), 6: 131.
Ernolatia lida Moore; Dierl, 1978: 264.


Ernolatia lida
(natural size)


Diagnosis.
The ground colour is a very pale yellow with a slightly darker yellow, diffuse submarginal band; this is usually darkened at the costa in the next species much more strongly. The valves of the male genitalia and subapical processes of the arms of the eighth sternite are much more prominent in lida than in moorei.

Geographical range. Sundaland, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference. The species is infrequent in lowland forest.

Biology. See generic account.

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