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Negeta
montanata
sp. n.
Nertobriga signata Walker sensu Holloway, 1976: 28
12-14mm. This species is larger than contrariata but has a similar
forewing colour and pattern except the subapical costal white triangle is larger
and deeper, more as in aureata. In the genitalia the sterigma is more
elongate, tubular, less heart-shaped.
Holotype
.
SABAH: Mt. Kinabalu, Park H.Q., 1620m, vii-ix.1965, Cambridge Expedition to Mt.
Kinabalu 1965 (H.J. Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway), BM noctuid slide
17344.
Paratypes:
1
as holotype but Kiau Gap, 1760m; 1E
as holotype but Power Station, 1930m.
Geographical range. Borneo.
Habitat preference. The species is rare and only known from G. Kinabalu
between 1620m and 1930m.
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