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Kerala
punctilineata
Moore
Kerala punctilineata Moore, 1881, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1881: 330.
Diagnosis. See the generic description.
Taxonomic note.
Hampson (1912: 490) recorded a female of
punctilineata from Pulo Laut, a low-lying island at the south of Borneo.
This specimen, collected by Doherty, matches typical Himalayan punctilineata
exactly in facies and genitalia, and is the only Sundanian specimen in the
genus, which is otherwise known mostly from high altitudes and latitude on the
Asian mainland, Taiwan and Japan. It is therefore highly likely that this is a
spurious record for Borneo. Unfortunately, it also throws doubt on at least some
other records from Pulo Laut involving Doherty material. For example, amongst
the Lithosiinae (Holloway, 2001), Pulo Laut singletons collected by Doherty
represent the only Sundanian records of Himalayan species such as
“Eilema”
plumbeomicans
Hampson,
“Eilema”
flavicosta
Moore and Lyclene bsoleta
Moore.
Geographical range. N.E. Himalaya, Burma, ?Borneo (see above).
Habitat preference. See the taxonomic note above.
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