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Artigisa
nigrosignata Walker
Artigisa
nigrosignata Walker,
[1863] 1864, J.
Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 160.
Homoptera
catenata Moore,
1887, Lep.
Ceylon,
3: 550.
Panilla
apicalis Butler,
1889, Illust.
typical Specimens lepid. Heterocera Colln Br. Mus., 7: 74.
Artigisa
nigrosignata
(Sri Lanka) |
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Diagnosis.
The ground of the wings is straw-colour, variegated with medium brown. There are
fine, wavy, black postmedials, that of the forewing obscured anteriorly by an
oblique, diffusely edged black bar that cuts off the apex.
Geographical
range. Borneo, Sri Lanka, India.
Habitat
preference. The only Bornean specimen known is the holotype of nigrosignata
(in
UM Oxford). It was taken by A.R. Wallace in Sarawak, probably in the lowlands.
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