FAMILY SPHINGIDAE
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Macroglossum fritzei Rothschild & Jordan
Macroglossum fritzei Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; 654.


Macroglossum fritzei
(.85 natural size)


Diagnosis.
The straight, oblique, pale antemedial and the rather mottled distal half to the forewing are diagnostic. The forewing below has a double row of yellow lunules associated with the submarginal over the dorsal half of the wing.

Geographical range. China, Riu Kiu Is., Borneo.

Habitat preference. The species has been taken infrequently in Brunei from the coast to 1618m on Bukit Retak.

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