Miscellaneous Genera I
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Cryptastria fuscomarginata Bethune-Baker 
Zethes fuscomarginata Bethune-Baker, 1906, Novit. zool., 13: 272.
Cryptastria fuscomarginata Bethune-Baker; Holloway, 1976: 40.


Cryptastria fuscomarginata


Diagnosis. See the generic description. An unusual feature is the darker brown bar running postmedially from the hindwing tornus, straight basally, concave distally, terminating posterior to M1, with pale triangles in the two spaces immediately anterior to it.

Geographical range. N.E. Himalaya, Thailand (VK), Borneo, Sumatra (HS / ZSM), Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bismarcks.

Habitat preference. Only two Bornean specimens have been located: from an area of cultivation and forest fragments at 1200m on G. Kinabalu; from dipterocarp forest on limestone at 250m on G. Api in the G. Mulu National Park.

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