INCERTAE SEDIS
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Sitvia denudata Walker 
   
Sitvia denudata Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 32: 388.
   
Kettelia lowii Butler, 1879, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (2) 1: 560.


Sitvia denudata

 


Diagnosis.
See generic description.

Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra.

Habitat preference. The species is not common, all material seen being from lowland rain forest.

Biology. A label on a specimen in BMNH refers to a mature larva, white, hairy, that soon pupated. The pupa was light yellowish green, anally suspended. No host-plant was recorded.

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