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Scopula
actuaria Walker
Acidalia actuaria Walker, 1861, List Specimens lepid. Insects
Colln Br. Mus., 22: 752.
Ptychopoda nigranalis Warren,
1896, Novit. zool., 3: 378.
Craspedia parumnotata Warren,
1896, Ibid., 3: 378.
Scopula actuaria sheljuzhkoi Wiltshire,
1967, Breit. Naturk. Forsch. S. W. Dtl. 26: 144.
Scopula
actuaria 
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Diagnosis.
See Scopula
inficita Walker.
Taxonomic
notes. Cerata
lengths show wide variation (see Fig 193). S. heba Prout (New Guinea to
Solomons) is closely related.
Geographical
range. Oriental
tropics to Taiwan, Afghanistan (ssp. sheljuzhkoi) and Timor (ssp. nigranalis), S. Moluccas. Also from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
Habitat
preference. Bornean
material seen is from Tenom in the lowlands of Sabah, and several specimens were
taken in cocoa plantations at Tuaran in 1997.
Biology.
Yunus &
Ho (1980) recorded this species as feeding on Theobroma (cocoa,
Sterculiaceae).
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