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Nishada syntomioides Walker
Lithosia
syntomioides Walker, 1862, J. Linn.
Soc. (Zool.), 6:106.
Etane
brevis Swinhoe, 1892, Cat. east.
and Aust. Lepid. Heterocera
Colln
Oxf. Univ. Mus., 1:126.
Nishada syntomioides 
(x 1.30)
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Nishada syntomioides Walker
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Diagnosis and taxonomic
note. The facies of this species, with
its yellow patches on dark brown, is distinctive, though possibly mimetic,
resembling species in the syntomine arctiid genus Amata Fabricius,
already treated in this series, in Darantasia Walker (see Darantasia Walker) and in some
procridine Zygaenidae of the Artona Walker generic complex. The
structure is typical of the genus, with extensive modification of the male
second and third tergites, and long, slender processes on the costa and sacculus
of each valve, curved in opposition to each other.
Geographical range. Borneo.
Habitat preference. The
species is rare in lowland forest.
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