TRIBE LITHOSIINI
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Euconosia xylinoides Walker stat. rev. 
   
Lithosia xylinoides Walker, 1862, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 6:107.
   
Lithosia aspersa Walker, 1862, .J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 6: 104 (partim, see previous species).


Euconosia xylinoides
(x 1.32)


Diagnosis.
See the previous species. The main arm of the vesica has a short, conical cornutus at its apex.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. The species was taken in numbers in wet heath forest (kerangas) on a river terrace west of the Melinau Gorge during the Mulu survey, and a single male has been taken in dry heath forest near Telisai in Brunei.

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