Savoca
yucca Swinhoe
sp. rev. & comb.n.
Gyrtona yucca Swinhoe, 1893, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6), 12:
264.
Gyrtona yucca Swinhoe; Swinhoe, 1919, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.
(8), 4: 12, as synonym of divitalis.
Diagnosis. This species is intermediate in forewing facies
between divitalis and conglobalis but larger than both. It is best
distinguished on genitalic characters as mentioned above for divitalis.
Geographical range. Borneo,
Singapore.
Habitat preference. There
is Bornean material from near Pontianak in the BMNH. One specimen was taken in
upper montane forest on G. Mulu during the Mulu survey.
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