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Dooabia lunifera Moore
   
Thalassodes lunifera Moore 1888, Descr. new Indian lep. Insects Colln Atkinson p. 250.
   
Dooabia lunifera transrufa Holloway, 1976: 60.


Dooabia lunifera transrufa (paratype)


Dooabia lunifera transrufa  


Diagnosis.
See Dooabia plana Prout.

Taxonomic notes. The processes from the valve costa are more elongate in the Bornean subspecies though of the same general form as in the typical race. The cornutus in the vesica is very short, spinose, rather than digitate.

Geographical range. N.E. Himalaya; Borneo, Sumatra.

Habitat preference. The species is somewhat more common than D. plana and flies over a similar altitude range in upper montane forest, though one specimen was taken at 2600m on G. Kinabalu.

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