Ptyonota
carissima
Wileman & West stat. rev.
Carea carissima Wileman & West, 1929, Novit. zool., 35: 20.
Ptyonota
rudanga
Kobes, 1994, Heterocera Sumatrana, 7: 263,
syn. n.
Ptyonota
rudanga
Kobes; Kobes, 1997: 83.
Diagnosis. See the previous species.
Taxonomic note. The abdomen has been lost on the holotype of carissima
but the facies indicates it is conspecific with rudanga.
Geographical range. Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Borneo.
Habitat preference. This is slightly commoner than formosa, taken in
several lowland forest localities (Labi and Ulu Temburong in Brunei, in alluvial
forest near G. Mulu and in the vicinity of the Danum Valley Field Centre).
However, one specimen was taken at 1618m on Bukit Retak in Brunei.
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