SUBFAMILY STICTOPTERINAE
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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.


Savoca yucca


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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