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Collix
griseipalpis Wileman
Collix griseipalpis Wileman,
1916, Entomologist, 49: 34.
Collix griseipalpis sspp.
phaeochiton Prout, relocata Prout, 1932, Novit. zool.,
38:
105.
Collix griseipalpis oblitera Prout,
1935, Novit. zool., 39: 228.
Collix
griseipalpis
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Diagnosis. This is a smaller, paler and more variegated species than the next but
shares with it the presence of a submarginal row of white spots. The underside
is more as in the previous two species, particularly rufidorsata, but the
submarginal spots are weaker and the postmedials and discal ones larger.
Geographical range. Taiwan; N.E. Himalaya (ssp. relocata); Peninsular
Malaysia, Borneo (ssp. phaeochiton); Java (ssp. obliterata).
Habitat preference. A single male from Pulo Laut represents the only
Bornean record: it is probably therefore a lowland species as it is in
Peninsular Malaysia.
Biology. The species has been reared from Trigonostemon (Euphorbiaceae), Ardisia
(Myrsinaceae) and Allophylus (Sapindaceae) in Peninsular Malaysia
(Prout, original description of phaeochiton; Yunus & Ho, 1980).
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