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Xyleutes
ceramica Walker
Zeuzera ceramica Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid.
Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 32: 587.
Duomitus ligneus Butler, 1880, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.
(5), 6: 68.
Eudoxyba bosschae Heylaerts, 1886, C. r. Ann. Soc.
ent. Belg. 36: 95.
Xyleutes ceramica Walker; Roepke, 1957: 24; Barlow,
1982: 42.
Diagnosis. This is one of the larger species, the forewings with rather
‘ligneous' markings including a central longitudinal zone of rich fawn with
darker zones anteriorly and posteriorly; the dorsum is narrowly more
greyish, a zone that expands sharply in an oblique step at three quarters to cut
off the dark band posterior to the central one.
Taxonomic notes. Roepke (1957) considered Solomons material to represent
a distinct subspecies, eichhorni Roepke.
Geographical range. N.E. Himalaya, Burma, Sundaland to New Guinea and
Solomons.
Habitat preference. During the Mulu survey most specimens were taken in
alluvial forest, and in Brunei three were taken in lowland forest at Labi.
Biology. Roepke (1957) and Arora (1976) cited records of the larva from Callicarpa,
Clerodendrum, Gmelina, Tectona (Verbenaceae), Erythrina, Sesbania (Leguminosae),
Spathodea (Bignoniaceae), and Duabanga (Sonneratiaceae).
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