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Pantana melantera Collenette
   
Laelia melantera
Collenette, 1932, Novit. zool., 38: 83.


Pantana melantera
(holotype, Peninsular Malaysia)


Pantana melantera


Diagnosis.
Both sexes are a paler, more cinnamon-brown than lithosioides, with deeper forewings. The female has the hindwings paler than the forewing. Both sexes have the spots around the forewing cell only slightly darker. The male genitalia are similar to those of adara, but the uncus is more robust.

Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo.

Habitat preference. The only specimen is a female from Samarinda in the lowlands of S.E. Kalimantan.

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