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Squamura acutistriata Mell or close
Arbela acutistriata Mell,
1923, Deutsch ent. Zeitschr., 1923: 165.
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Squamura acutistriata 
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Diagnosis. This species is larger and darker than the rest, the hindwings
dark grey and the forewings fawn, mottled with dark grey and some black, within
which can be detected a large discal ellipse of grey.
Geographical
range. Java,
?Borneo.
Habitat preference. The only Bornean specimen, a female, was taken at
Seria in Brunei, in a mixture of coastal vegetation and secondary forest.
Biology. The larva of the species was originally taken boring in branches
of cocoa (Theobroma, Sterculiaceae) but has not been recorded from that
crop subsequently, only from Albizia (Leguminosae) (Roepke 1957).
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