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Mythimna (Aletia)
decississima Walker
Leucania decississima Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects
Colln. Br. Mus., 32: 624.
Leucania nareda Felder, 1874, Reise. Ost. Fregatte Novara, p1. 109: 9.
Leucania pulchra Snellen, 1880, Midden Sumatra, Lep., 4: 41.
Leucania lanceata Moore, 1881, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1881: 340.
Leucania aureola Lucas, 1890, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales (2), 4:1097.
Sideridia lineatissima Warren, 1912, Novit. zoo1., 19: 12.
Diagnosis. See
Mythimna (Aletia) exsanguis
Guenee and Mythimna (Aletia) calorai
sp. n.
Taxonomic notes. In
the Philippines flies a similar but distinct species, franclemonti Calora.
Record of this from Borneo by Holloway (1976) proves to be erroneous, the taxon
concerned being new and described below.
Geographical
range. Throughout
the Oriental tropics to Sundaland and east to Sulawesi, and S. Moluccas.
Habitat
preference. Bornean
material is mainly from lowland localities, usually those with open habitats or
secondary vegetation. However, two specimens were taken at 1618m in upper
montane forest on Bukit Retak in Brunei.
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