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Lineopalpa
orsara Swinhoe
Lineopalpa
orsara Swinhoe, 1903, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7),
11: 506.
Paragonitis
strigocrenulata Bethune-Baker, 1906, Novit. zool.,
13: 239.
Lineopalpa
orsara Swinhoe; Holloway, 1976: 36.
Diagnosis.
The forewings are a dark purplish red-brown, either uniform or with the reniform
picked out paler. The postmedial is straight, oblique, just distal to the
reniform but usually obscure, but sometimes edged greyish, often with further
grey in a band between it and the reniform.
Geographical
range. Borneo, Luzon, Sulawesi, Seram, New Guinea.
Habitat
preference. All records are montane. The species is frequent on G. Kinabalu
from 1620m to 2600m and has also been taken at 1618m on Bukit Retak (2) and at
1780m on G. Mulu (1).
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