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Scaptesyle
mirabilis Hampson
Scaptesyle
mirabilis Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lepid.
Phalaenae Br. Mus., 2: 284.
Scaptesyle
mirabilis Hampson; Holloway, 1976: 2.
Scaptesyle mirabilis 
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Diagnosis. The
forewing border is relatively narrow with a double indentation basally, the
colour enclosed within it orange.
Geographical
range. Borneo.
Habitat preference. The
species is common on G. Kinabalu, flying by day. It occurs from 1500m to 1930m.
Two specimens were taken on G. Api during the Mulu survey, at 1500m near the
Pinnacles and on the summit at 1710m.
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