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Cyclophora
carsoni sp. n.
Anisodes dimerites Prout
sensu, Holloway, 1976: 63,
Cyclophora
carsoni 
(paratype)
Cyclophora
carsoni 
(paratype)
Cyclophora
carsoni
(paratype)
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13-15mm. The facies is essentially similar to that of dimerites but
there is much greater variability, with forms shaded darker red in the medial
zones of both wings or just along the medial with a streak of a darker marginal
patch at vein M2. Another common form has black flecks on the veins within the
medial, post- and antemedial fasciae (a form also seen in C. subrosea Warren
comb. n. ). In the male genitalia the valves have a strongly concave
costa with square and triangular processes close together at its distal end. The
aedeagus is short, broad, with a mass of robust spines in the vesica. In the
female the ovipositor lobes are rather elongate and the bursa very small,
bilobed, on a short ductus, with very fine spining only.
Holotype . SABAH: Mt Kinabalu, Power
Station, 1930m, vii-ix.1965. Cambridge Expedition to Mt Kinabalu 1965 (H.J.
Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway) BM geometrid slide 8987.
Paratypes: 3 (slides 8981, 8988), 5 (slide 8986) as holotype; 1 as holotype but
Kiau Gap, 1760m; 1 as holotype but Bundu Tuhan, 1200m; l as holotype but
Kamborangoh, 2110m, slide 8983; 2 as holotype but Radio Sabah, 2600m, slides
8985, 18470; 1 NORD BORNEO, Mount Kina Balu, 5.8.1903 (John Waterstradt); 3
Mt Kinabalu, Marei Parei (5000ft) and Lumu Lumu (5500ft) 1929 (H.M.
Pendlebury); 2 SARAWAK: Gunung Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.
Holloway et al.) Site 1, 2, January, Camp 4, Mulu 1790m.
Geographical range. Borneo.
Habitat preference. Records are from 1200m to 2600m, but the species is
most frequent at altitudes just below 2000m (upper montane forest).
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