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The Snouted Tigers (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Aganainae) of Papua Indonesia

by Jaap Zwier

Asota caricae (Fabricius, 1775)

ssp. caricae (Fabricius, 1775)
alciphron Cramer, 1777
euroa Rothschild, 1897
anawa Swinhoe, 1903

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Distribution

 

 

 

STATUS: Very common in lowland areas.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: Numfor Island; Biak; Yapen: Waropen; Roon; Salawati; New Guinea: Depapre, Jayapura, Keerom River, Kouh, Manokwari, Meja Reserve, Noordwijk (nr Jayapura), Prafi, Sentani, Sorong, Tanah Merah, Tandia, Timika, Ubrub, Wapoga, Warkapi. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: A very wide distribution from India in the northwest to the Solomon Islands in the southeast. In China it enters the Palaearctic Region as north as in the province Shaanxi.

DATA SOURCES: BMNH, CMWM, KSP, RMNH, SNSD, ZMAN, ZMHB.