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Aiteta musculina Walker
Aiteta musculina Walker, 1856,
List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 9: 131.
Chaladra cucullioides Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln
Br. Mus., 32: 640.
Aiteta musculina Walker; Kobes, 1997:
Diagnosis. The forewing has grey and reddish brown shading that is paler and
greyer towards the costa. The fasciae are rather curved, the antemedial oblique,
and there is a diagnostic darker red shade on the costa distal to the postmedial.
The hindwings and abdomen are dark grey, darker than the forewings, though the
former have a paler costal zone wherein the veins are darkly defined.
Geographical range. Taiwan, Sundaland, Philippines, Sulawesi, Moluccas.
Habitat preference.
Only one specimen has been taken in recent
surveys, in an area of swamp forest (Daerah Belait, 15m) in the lowlands of
Brunei.
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