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Marumba spectabilis Butler
Triptogon spectabilis Butler, 1875, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1875: 256.
Marumba spectabilis Butler; Rothschild & Jordan, 1903: 273.
Marumba spectabilis malayana Rothschild & Jordan, 1903: 274.
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Marumba spectabilis 
(.65
natural size)
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Diagnosis. This is a more rufous brown species than the rest, with a very
strong tornal loop to the forewing and extra, more irregular, weak fasciae
between the ones characteristic of other species, There are conspicuous
rufous orange areas at the torni of both wings on the underside.
Taxonomic notes. Sundanian material belongs to ssp. malayana.
Geographical range. Himalaya, S. China, Taiwan; Sundaland; Sulawesi.
Habitat preference. This may well be an exclusively montane species, being
taken infrequently from 2100m to 2600m on G. Kinabalu and from 1000-1800m
on G. Mulu. The Sulawesi race is found at lower altitudes.
Biology.
In India (Bell & Scott, 1937) the larva is bright yellowish green
above the spiracles, with yellow tubercles; below the spiracles the body
is watery green with white tubercles, separated from the dorsal part by a
bright yellow subspiracular stripe that is edged ventrally by brown, most
intense on the thorax, weak or absent over the abdominal segments. The
oblique bands are formed by yellow or red tubercles. The horn is bright
green.
The recorded host-plant (Bell & Scott) is Meliosma (Meliosmaceae).
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