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Antimimistis
attenuata Moore
Eupithecia attenuata Moore,
1887, Lep. Ceylon, 3: 479.
Antimimistis illaudata Turner,
1922, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 46: 234.
Antimimistis attenuata melamphaes Prout,
1958, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), 6: 447.
Antimimistis attenuata Moore;
Holloway, 1976: 70.
Antimimistis
attenuata 
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Diagnosis. The wings are rather narrow, dark blackish brown,
with a sequence of finely paler fasciae from which darker brown grades paler
basad. There are distinctive submarginal pale spots centrally on both fore- and
hindwing.
Geographical range. Sri
Lanka, N.E. Himalaya, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram, New Guinea, Queensland.
Habitat preference. This
is a relatively frequent species, taken mostly in forest from the lowlands to
1790m.
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