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Labanda
ceylusalis
Walker
Labanda ceylusalis Walker, 1859, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br.
Mus., 19: 919.
Labanda ceylusalis Walker; Holloway, 1976: 21.
Diagnosis. This is the largest and most distinctive Bornean species, dark
brown with a variegated marginal zone and a transverse antemedial fascia. The
stronger, oblique, curved whitish bar of the postmedial near the forewing costa
and the dull yellow border of the hindwing are diagnostic. The ovipositor lobes
are unusually acute.
Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Palawan (ZMUC), Sulawesi.
Habitat preference.
The species is uncommon but is found from the
lowlands to 1200m.
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