::The Moths of Borneo::

SUBFAMILY EUSTROTIINAE

Maliattha ritsemae Snellen (Plate 3, Figs 106, 112 )

�� Erastria ritsemae Snellen, 1880, Tijdschr. Ent., 23: 57.
�� Acontia vitiensis Butler, 1886, Trans. ent. Soc. London, 1886: 399.
�� Erastria albofusca Pagenstecher, 1888, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk., 41: 133.
�� Eustrotia thermozona Hampson, 1910, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus., 10: 588.
�� Maliattha ritsemae interrupta Warren, 1913, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 11: 281.

Diagnosis. See the previous species.

Geographical range. Indo‑Australian tropics from Sundaland eastwards to N. Australia and the Society and Austral Is.

Habitat preference. The species has not been recorded in recent surveys, but a few old specimens from Labuan I. have been located. This island is extensively inhabited.

Biology. The only larval host record (Robinson et al., 2001) is for Brachiaria (Gramineae).

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