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Sauris
contorta Warren
Remodes contorta Warren, 1897, Novit. zool., 4: 232.
Sauris
contorta 
(Penang)
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Sauris
contorta
(Perak) |
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Diagnosis. The forewings are darkly fasciated, with an angle to the postmedial as
in S. eupitheciata, but there is a squarish buff zone subapically on the
costa that is diagnostic and, in the male, a white ovate patch subtornally. The
male hindwings are white with distal lobing of the same colour: those of the
female are pale grey.
Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo.
Habitat preference. A male was taken in lower montane forest at 900m on
G. Api, Sarawak, and there is a female in BMNH from inland of Pontianak in
Kalimantan.
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