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Xyleutes persona le Guillou
Cossus persona
le Guillou, 1841, Rev. Zool. 4: 257.
Zeuzera leuconota
Walker,
1856, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 1537: 70
Xyleutes persona le Guillou; Roepke, 1957: 22.
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Xyleutes persona  (Sri
Lanka)
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Diagnosis. See Xyleutes strix Linnaeus.
Geographical range. Indian Subregion, S.E. Asia, Sundaland, Sulawesi, New
Guinea.
Habitat preference. During the Mulu survey the species was taken
infrequently in all lowland forest types.
Biology. Roepke (1957) gave Cassia (Leguminosae) and Durio (Bombacaceae)
as host-plants; Arora (1976) also included Premna (Verbenaceae).
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