Wallacea marginata Gestro, 1896

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Wallacea marginata Gestro, 1896

Wallacea marginata Gestro, 1896: 330 (original description); GESTRO (1897): 42 (noted); DONCKIER DE DONCEEL (1899): 552 (catalogue); GESTRO (1900): 434 (correction of Donckierʼs catalogue); WEISE (1911a):54 (catalogue); WEISE (1911b): 83 (catalogue); GESTRO (1913): 45 (catalogue).

Wallaceana marginata: UHMANN (1935) : 146 (faunistics); UHMANN (1939b): 40 (variability, faunistics); UHMANN (1953):91 (faunistics); KALSHOVEN (1957): 10 (faunistics, host plant); UHMANN (1958): 231 (catalogue); UHMANN (1964): 461 (catalogue); REID (1998): 302 (faunistics, host plant).

Pistosia marginata: KIMOTO (2000) : 144 (catalogue).

Wallaceana chunia Maulik, 1937b: 238 (original description); UHMANN (1939b): 40 (type, synonymy).

Type locality. Wallacea marginata : ‘ Sereinu (Sipora)’ [= Indonesia, Mentawai, Sipora Is., Sereinu] ; W. chunia : ‘ Java, Bandjar’ [= Indonesia, West Java, Banjar, 7°22.5′S, 108°32.5′S] .

Distribution. Indonesia: Java ( UHMANN 1935, 1953; KALSHOVEN 1957; REID 1998), Mentawai ( GESTRO 1896).

Host plant. Arecaceae : Plectocomia sp. ( KALSHOVEN 1957).

Remarks. REID (1998) published a record of this species from Zingiberaceae , however, it may be that the specimen was only an ocassional visitor of those plants and that the true host plant would be a palm as indicated by KALSHOVEN (1957). Therefore Reidʼs record is not cited as host plant.