TRIBE BOARMIINI
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Iulotrichia decursaria Walker
   
Boarmia decursaria Walker, 1860, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 21: 384.
   
Iulotrichia decursaria Walker; Holloway, 1976: 79.


Iulotrichia decursaria


Diagnosis.
The ground colour is white, the fasciation black, similar to that of Cusiala boarmoides Moore (See Cusiala boarmoides acutijuxta ssp. n.) but the postmedials are weaker, more crenulate. The anterior half of the forewing is speckled with dark brown. The male antennae are quadripectinate.

Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra.

Habitat preference. The species is frequent in lowland forest. It was not taken in heath forest. On G. Kinabalu a singleton was taken at 1200m.

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