SUBFAMILY EUTELIINAE
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Atacira ?caesia Roepke comb. n.  
   
Bombotelia caesia Roepke, 1938, Bull. Mus. r. Hist. nat. Belg. 14 (13): 19. 72.


Atacira caesia (Sulawesi)

Atacira ?caesia


Diagnosis.
A large species with pale purplish grey forewings, a prominent angled dark medial and a large subapical costal triangle.

Geographical range. Sulawesi, ? Borneo (a single specimen, tentatively attributed and illustrated with typical caesia on the Plate, but too worn for certain identification).

Habitat preference. The Bornean specimen was taken in alluvial forest at Long Pala, G. Mulu National Park.

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