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Omiza miliaria Swinhoe stat & comb. rev.
   
Omiza miliaria Swinhoe, 1889, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1889: 425.
   
Hypochrosis pachiaria obnubilata Prout, 1922, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley, 1: 299, syn. n.


Omiza miliaria

Omiza miliaria


Diagnosis.
This and the next species are very similar and are most reliably distinguished on features of the male genitalia: miliaria has a short comb of cornuti and a pouch with two rows of stout cornuti at the aedeagus apex; herois has a long comb of cornuti only. The male of miliaria has a stronger forewing submarginal patch centrally, but the antemedial is only strong at the costa rather than extending weakly in an arc to the dorsum. In herois the hindwing margin is excavate subdorsally and tinged brown there. In the female the forewing antemedial is more definite, curved in herois, and the basal pale zone of the hindwing makes an irregular, mottled incursion into the centre of the distal brown area, this boundary being more or less straight in miliaria.

Taxonomic notes. Typical southern Indian miliaria is smaller and greener than specimens from the rest of the range. Bornean and more easterly specimens are best referred to ssp. obnubilata (t. loc. Seram).

Geographical range. India, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram, New Guinea.

Habitat preference. The species is probably lower montane, a few specimens being taken in that zone (900-1000m) on G. Api and G. Mulu during the Mulu survey. There is material in the BMNH from G. Kinabalu collected by Waterstradt, but it lacks altitude data.

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