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Apostegania rectilineata Swinhoe 
   
Ptochophyle rectilineata Swinhoe, 1906, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 17: 554.
   
Apostegania rectilineata prosthesis Prout, 1938, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 12: 149.


Apostegania rectilineata

 


Diagnosis. The uniform pale, orangeish, straw-yellow colour of the wings, and the straight, oblique fasciae are diagnostic. Of the latter, that cutting off the hindwing apex is particularly distinctive.

Geographical range. Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia (Barlow colln), Borneo, Java; Bali (ssp. prosthesis).

Habitat preference. The species is rare, recorded only from lowland forest. All four specimens noted during the Mulu survey were from alluvial forest. Seven specimens were taken in the understorey of undisturbed forest near the Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah, but the species was not recorded in canopy tower samples from the same forest or in logged forest (S.J. Willott, pers. comm.).

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