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Tamba lahera Swinhoe
Zethes lahera Swinhoe, 1897, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6), 19: 169.


Tamba lahera


Diagnosis
. This is a large species with a distinctive facies. The wings are mostly a rather rippled vinous brownish grey, but with clearly defined dark greenish brown blocks basally and apically on the forewing and tornally on the hindwing. The forewing apical block is the largest and contains a conspicuous, oblique white mark.

Geographical range. Singapore, Andamans, Thailand (VK), Sumatra (HS / ZSM), Borneo, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference. Of six specimens taken in recent surveys, four are from lowland forest up to 300m (Labi, the Tutong area and Ulu Temburong in Brunei), one from lower montane forest at 1000m on G. Mulu and one from 1618m on Bukit Retak, Brunei.

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