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Lymantria inordinata Walker
   
Lymantria inordinata Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 32: 368.
   
Lymantria inordinata barisana Collenette, 1933, Novit. zool., 39: 31.


Lymantria inordinata

Lymantria inordinata


Diagnosis.
The pale coral pink hindwings and lightly fasciated, bone-coloured forewings, with the only conspicuously darker marks being a discal chevron and a patch basally and dorsally displaced from it, are diagnostic.

Geographical range. Sulawesi, Seram; Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo (ssp. barisana).

Habitat preference. The species is rare and lowland.

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