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Eois
plumbacea Warren
Pseudasthena (?)plumbacea
Warren, 1894, Novit. zool., 1: 396
Anthyria metriopis Meyrick, 1897, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond.,
1897: 70.
Eois
plumbacea  (Kinabalu)
(x 1.33)
Eois
plumbacea
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Diagnosis.
The wings
are a warm dove grey, the fasciae regular, slightly darker than the ground. The
fringes are invested with pale yellow and there is a double spot of the same
colour postmedially on the forewing at one third from the costa.
Taxonomic
notes. Four
somewhat larger male specimens from G. Kinabalu in BMNH (one from just over
1500m) proved not to have genitalia distinguishable from those of typical plumbacea.
One is illustrated in the above, together with a typical specimen.
Geographical
range. Borneo,
Mentawi Is.
Habitat
preference. Apart
from the Kinabalu specimens mentioned above, most material is from lowland
localities. During the Mulu survey most specimens were taken in dipterocarp
forest on limestone at 250m (lower slopes of G. Api).
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