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Stictosia
crocea sp.
n.
Stictosia
crocea  (holotype)
(x 1.63)
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7-8mm.
This is the largest of the three species, with a deeper orange colour to the
more variegated forewings that are also more speckled with black scales; the
characteristic facies elements are present, however. The hindwings are pale
yellow, and a fringe of long scales of the same colour extends over them from
the dorsal edges of the forewings. The genitalia have the tegumen/vinculum/saccus
proportions as in flexilisana, but are
distinguished by a prominent falcate angle to the ventral margin of the sacculus,
and a broad base and strong curvature to the cornutus of the aedeagus.
Holotype
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BRUNEI: 50-100ft,
Badas, Agathis
/ swamp for. / secondary vegetation, 27.ii. 1982 (G.S. Robinson), BM arctiid slide 5230.
Paratype
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SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park,
R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway
et al.), Site 23, April, W. Melinau Gorge, 250m. 430558, FEG 4, limestone
forest. [Specimen damaged].
Geographical
range. Borneo.
Habitat
preference. Both
specimens are from the lowlands, from swamp forest and dipterocarp forest on
limestone.
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