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Dilophodes elegans Butler
   
Abraxas elegans Butler, 1878, Illustr. typical Specimens Lep. Colln Br. Mus., 2: 53.
   
Abraxas khasiana Swinhoe, 1892, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond., 1892: 17
   
Dilophodes elegans auribasis Prout, 1926, Sarawak Mus. J. 3: 209.
   
Dilophodes elegans sinica Wehrli, 1939, Gross-Schmett. Erde 4, Suppl.: 263.


Dilophodes elegans


Diagnosis.
See Pogonopygia species above.

Geographical range. Japan; China; Taiwan, N.E. Himalaya, Burma, Borneo (ssp. auribasis Prout).

Habitat preference. The holotype female of the Bornean subspecies represents the only record from the island, from about 2000m on G. Murud, Sarawak.

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