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Ziridava xylinaria Walker 
   
Ziridava xylinaria Walker, 1863, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 26: 1550.
   
Ziridava xylinaria subrubida Warren, 1897, Novit. zool., 4: 71.
   
Chloroclystis leptomita Turner, 1907, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 31: 695.
   
Ziridava xylinaria subaequata Prout, 1929, Bull. Hill. Mus. Witley, 3: 45.


Ziridava xylinaria


Diagnosis. This and the next species are very similar, but kanshireiensis Prout has a pinkish ground colour rather than straw colour, and a broader dark area distal to the discal spot: the general appearance is thus darker, pinker, less variegated. The ornamentation of the aedeagus vesica is very different in the two species.

Geographical range. Borneo, Sumatra; Sulawesi (ssp. subrubida); Moluccas (ssp. subaequata); New Guinea, Queensland (ssp. leptomita); Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

Habitat preference. In recent surveys two specimens have been taken at 1465m on Bukit Retak and another in alluvial forest at 100m just west of the Melinau Gorge, Sarawak. Older material also is from lowland localities.

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