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Dordura
aliena Walker
Hypaetra
aliena Walker,
1865, List
Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 33: 964.
Dordura
apicalis Moore,
1882, Descr.
new Indian lepid. Insects Colln W.S. Atkinson, 2: 170
Dysgonia
tincta Hampson, 1893, Illust. typical Specimens lepid.
Heterocera Colln Br. Mus., 9: 27, 112.
Hypaetra
modesta Roepke, 1956, Tijdschr. Ent. 99:
28, syn.
n.
Dordura aliena Walker;
Holloway, 1976: 35.
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Dordura
aliena  |
Dordura
aliena |
Diagnosis.
See the generic description. The female is a much darker and more uniform mauve-grey
than the male but with similar fasciation and trapezoidal subapical costal mark
on the forewing. The reniform is entangled in the postmedial, and the orbicular
is a dark dot in an otherwise unmarked band, distinctly paler in the male in the
medial zone.
Taxonomic
note. The new synonym, modesta Roepke,
is based on a female of aliena, but has previously been placed in Avatha
Walker
(Poole, 1989; see also p. 90).
Geographical
range. Indian Subregion, Burma, Thailand (VK), Peninsular Malaysia,
Sumatra (HS / ZSM), Borneo, New Guinea.
Habitat
preference. The species ranges from the lowlands to 1930m and has been
taken in localities with undisturbed forest through to those with extensive
cultivation.
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