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

by Jaap Zwier

 

 

 

Asota plana (Walker, 1854)

ssp. commixta Rothschild, 1897

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Distribution

 

 

 

STATUS: Asota plana seems rather rare in Papua. Outside New Guinea the species is particularly abundant in the sundanian region. Found in lowland as well as mountainous areas.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: New Guinea: Abmisibil, Ampas, Demaisi, Depapre, Etna Bay, Furu Camp (Foja Mts), Genyem, Humboldt Bay, Mabilabol, Mokwam, Sentani, Ubrub, Walmak (Nipsan). Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Widely distributed from the Andaman Islands and Indonesia to the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and from Taiwan to the Philippines.

DATA SOURCES: BMNH, CMWM, KSP, RMNH, SNSD, ZMAN, ZMHB. Literature (see below)

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Gorbunov, O.G. & A.N. Zamesov, 2014. To the knowledge of Macroheterocera of Southeast Asia and New Guinea. I. Snouted Tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Aganaidae) of Papua Province, Indonesia. Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea 2: 157-165.