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Megacorma obliqua Walker
Macros obliqua Walker, 1856, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln. Br.
Mus.,
8: 208.
Megacorma obliqua Walker; Rothschild & Jordan, 1903: 15.
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Megacorma obliqua 
(.65
natural size)
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Diagnosis. The species is like a small version of Meganoton analis (below) but
with greenish white forewings and hindwing tornus (cf. grey), a stronger dark
band from the centre of the forewing costa to the margin and no arcuate dark
band cutting off a lens of ground colour apically on the forewing costa.
Geographical range. Indian Subregion to Bismarcks; Solomons (ssp. remota
Jordan).
Habitat preference. The species is often common in forest and disturbed
habitats, though may be less frequent at the coast (Harman, 1981). It has been
taken as high as 2600m on G. Kinabalu, possibly hill-topping.
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