SUBFAMILY ARIOLICINI
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Titulcia confictella Walker
Titulcia confictella Walker, 1864, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 29: 811.
Chionomera
quensta Swinhoe, 1893, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6), 12: 259.
Titulcia confictella Walker; Kobes, 1997: 46.

 


Titulcia confictella


Diagnosis.
The three satiny white patches are separated by narrow brown and gold zones, the central area much enlarged, almost rectangular, with its distal margin strongly curved, compressing a smaller subapical patch right into the apex.

Geographical range. Borneo, N.E. Himalaya, Taiwan, Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Palawan (ZMUC).

Habitat preference. The type specimen was collected by A.R. Wallace in Sarawak, probably in the lowlands. A second specimen was taken in recent surveys at 1618m on Bukit Retak in Brunei.

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