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Epistauropus Gaede
Epistauropus apiculatus Rothschild
Stauropus
apiculatus Rothschild, 1917, Novit. zool. 24: 245.
Epistauropus
apiculatus Rothschild;
Kiriakoff 1968: 59.
Diagnosis. The only other Bornean species with a darker forewing costa and a pale
greyish ground is Porsica rufocostata Gaede which has more elongate,
apically rounded forewings that lack the marginal dark semicircle of apiculatus.
The female of apiculatus is more uniformly darker grey, but with a
pale grey band interior to the marginal semicircle.
Geographical range. Sundaland, Sulawesi.
Habitat preference. The species is infrequent in lowland dipterocarp
forest.
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