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Chora
repandens
Walker
Chora
repandens Walker, 1862, J.
Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 6: 188.
Cosmia sundana Felder, 1872, Reise. öst. Fregatte Novara: pl. 110,
fig. 38.
Careades
hemichlora
Joannis, 1911, Bull. Soc. ent. Fr., 1911: 309,
syn. n.
Chora
repandens
Walker; Kobes, 1997: 163.
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Chora
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repandens  |
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Diagnosis.
See the generic description for general features
and sexual dimorphism. The male has the oblique postmedial dividing the forewing
into a darker basal half and a paler distaal one in browish purple. The female
is a darker less brown purple, with this grading darkest from either side into
the postmedial, and with dark grey hindwings rather than reddish ones as in
similar Diehlea species.
Taxonomic note. The genitalia and facies of hemichlora indicate that
this taxon is conspecific with repandens.
Geographical range. Sundaland, Philippines (ZMUC), Sulawesi, Seram.
Habitat preference. The species is uncommon, all six specimens in recent
surveys being taken in lowland forest, including swamp forest.
Biology.
Yunus & Ho (1980) gave Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) as a larval host-plant.
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