TRIBE TIMANDRINI
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Timandra punctinervis Prout
  
Timandra punctinervis Prout, 1916, Novit. zool., 23: 18.
  
Calothysanis punctinervis piperata Prout, 1935, Ibid., 39: 226.
  
C. p. rigida Prout, 1937, Ibid., 40: 181.
  
C. p. fastosa Prout, 1938, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 12: 154.
  
Calothysanis punctinervis Prout; Holloway, 1976: 63.


Timandra punctinervis


Diagnosis. The facies is distinctive, with fawn wings speckled darker and crossed by fine dark brown fasciae. The oblique postmedial of the forewing converges diagnostically with the much finer sinuous submarginal near the apex of the wing.

Taxonomic notes. The Bornean race is ssp. fastosa Prout.

Geographical range. Sundaland.

Habitat preference. Only recorded from G. Kinabalu, the species occurs infrequently over the range 1500-1930m.

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