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Dalima
subflavata Felder & Rogenhofer
Xandrames? subflavata Felder
& Rogenhofer, 1875, Reise öst. Fregatte Novara 2: p1. 92.
Diagnosis. This
is a large yellow species that is variably irrorated and fasciated with pale
reddish brown, the female with more diffuse and extensive irroration and
additional irroration of pale grey. The fasciae are not dissimilar in their
course and positioning to those of patularia, but the forewing medial is
represented at the dorsum by a short black bar broken by a pale line along the
anal vein.
Geographical
range. Sumatra,
Java, Borneo.
Habitat
preference. This
is the only Dalima found more commonly in the Bomean lowlands: it was
found to be common in kerangas forest at 150m on a river terrace west of the
Melinau Gorge in the G. Mulu National Park, but specimens were also taken in
hill dipterocarp forest at 500m on G. Mulu and at 250m (dipterocarp forest) and
900m (lower montane forest) on the limestone G. Api. In Brunei the species has
mostly been taken in hill dipterocarp forest in Ulu Temburong, but also at Labi
and on the coast at Seria. A few specimens have been recorded from upper montane
forest on Bukit Retak.
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