1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

2. Diagnosis

1-3: ♀, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1: Butler (1880: 675) [from copyright-free scan at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Aletia formosana Butler, 1880 [Original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Leucania adusta Moore, 1881 [synonym according to funet.fi]

3.3. Subspecies

• Sideridis formosana conferta Warren, 1913 [subspecies according to funet.fi]

3.4. Literature

• Original description: Butler. A. G. (1880): On a second Collection of Lepidoptera made in Formosa by H. E. Hobson, Esq. — Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1880: 666-691. London (Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer).