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Mudaria
major Warren comb. n.
Plagideicta
leprosticta major Warren, 1914, Gross-Schmett. Erde., 11:339.
Plagideicta
batesoni Holloway, 1976: 13.
Plagideicta
major Warren; Holloway, 1982: 229.
Diagnosis.
The central
leprous patch on the forewing is elongate, arcuate, curving out towards the
apical patch, partially divided into three elements. The tornal spot has two
small white dots on the postmedial just basal to it. There are weak elliptical
zones in male tergites 4-7; the uncus is oblong; the harpe is bifid, one process
slender, one short, angular.
Geographical
range. N.E.
Himalaya, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sulawesi.
Habitat
preference. A
few specimens have been captured in lowland (including mangrove) forest, but the
type series was from a cultivated area with
forest remnants at 1200m on G. Kinabalu. During the Mulu survey a few specimens
were taken at 1500m in an open upper montane zone on the limestone G. Api.
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