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The Swallowtail Moths (URANIIDAE, Microniinae) of Papua Indonesia

by Siep and Jannie Sinnema

Acropteris basiguttaria (Walker, 1866)

parvidentata Warren, 1897
inquinata (Warren, 1901)
moluccana Prout, 1919
duplicata Gaede, 1929

 

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

 

STATUS: Widely distributed on New Guinea.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: Misool Island; Waigeo Island; New Guinea: Base Camp (Utakwa River), Etna bay, Humboldt Bay, Kaisah, Kapaur (Fakfak), Klamono Oilfields, Pioniersbivak, Setakwa River, Utakwa River. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Lombok, Flores, Sulawesi, Moluccas, Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: BMNH, KSP, RMNH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Rothschild, W., 1915. On Lepidoptera from the Islands of Ceram (Seram), Buru, Bali and Misol. Novitates Zoologicae 22: 209-227.
Seitz, A., 1934. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 10: Spinner und Schwarmer des Indo-Australischen Gebiets, Uraniidae: 93-96. A. Kernen, Stuttgart.