TRIBE BOARMIINI
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Cleora pupillata Walker
   
Boarmia pupillata Walker, 1860, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 21: 491.
   
Cleora pupillata Walker; Holloway, 1976: 82.


Cleora pupillata


Diagnosis.
The wings are relatively uniform, dull greenish brown colour, speckled darker.

Geographical range. S.E. Asia, Sundaland; Philippines (ssp. luzonensis Fletcher); Sulawesi (ssp. fuliginata Fletcher).

Habitat preference. The species appears to be rare, one being taken in 10 year regenerating alluvial forest near the G. Mulu National Park and the other at 1200m on G. Kinabalu in an area where there is extensive cultivation.

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