SUBFAMILY DREPANINAE
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Oreta singapura Swinhoe  
   
Oreta singapura Swinhoe, 1892, Cat. Eastern, Australian Lep. Het. Colln Oxford Univ. Mus.,
        
p. 243.
   
Cobanilla continua Warren, 1899, Novit. zool., 6: 313.
   
Oreta dissimilis Warren, O. aurata Warren, O. ustimacula Warren, 1923, Gross-Schmett. Erde,
        
10: 482-3.
   
Holoreta leucospila Joicey & Talbot, 1917, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8), 20: 82.
   
Oreta singapura kalisi Watson, 1961: 331.


Oreta singapura

Oreta singapura


Diagnosis.
See O. bicolor.

Geographical range. Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo; Sulawesi (ssp. kalisi); Seram, New Guinea (ssp. continua).

Habitat preference. Four specimens have been taken in lowland forest, including dry heath and swamp forest, but two were taken at high altitude (1618m on Bukit Retak, 1780m on G. Mulu).

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