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Borbotana
nivifascia Walker
Borbotana nivifascia Walker, 1858, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 15:
1651.
Choluata eburneifera Walker, 1864, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool) 7: 57.
Heterochroma leucographa Snellen, 1877, Tijdschr. Ent. 20: 70.
Borbotana nivifascia tumefacta Warren, 1913, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 11: 167.
Borbotana nivifascia longidens Prout, 1926, Entomologist, 59: 66.
Diagnosis.
The black
and white forewing facies is unmistakable.
Geographical
range. N.E.
Himalaya (ssp. tumefacta); Burma, Sundaland, Sulawesi; Moluccas to
Solomons (ssp. longidens).
Habitat
preference. Bornean
material is from the lowlands particularly open habitats and dry heath forest
(at Telisai in Brunei).
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