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Caulocera crassicornis Walker
   
Chamaita crassicornis Walker, 1862, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 6:122.


Caulocera crassicornis
(x 1.63)


Fig.5d: Caulocera crassicornis Walker


Diagnosis.
The wings are diaphanous white, the forewing shaded with pale yellowish brown in diffuse, angled antemedial and postmedial fasciae and oblique patches in the submarginal zone, one terminating at the tornal angle.

Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Bali.

Habitat preference. A single specimen was taken by a stream at 150m in dipterocarp forest on G. Mulu. Older material is also from the lowlands, but the species is rare.

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