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Catocala
macula Hampson
Audea
macula Hampson, 1891, Illust. typical Specimens lepid.
Heterocera Colln Br. Mus., 8: 84.
Ulothrichopus
macula reducta Prout, 1922, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley, 1: 223.
Ulotrichopus
macula Hampson; Holloway, 1976: 28; Kobes, 1985: 24.
Diagnosis.
The
facies is unmistakable, the cryptic grey forewings having a bark-like pattern as
in the temperate Catocala, but with pale yellow flash coloration on the
hindwings, broken by a dark, dull, blackish brown border and discal patch.
Geographical
range. Indian Subregion, Taiwan, Thailand (VK), Sundaland; Sulawesi, Seram (ssp. reducta).
Habitat
preference. The species is rare, montane, recorded twice in recent surveys at
1930m on G. Kinabalu and at 1500m on G. Api.
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