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Diomea
garroodi sp. n.
 ,  14mm. This species resembles tricuspida very
closely in both wing shape, facies and male genitalia, and was originally marked
down merely as a variant of that species, lacking the prominent creamy white,
bilobed patch across the apical zone of the forewing. The forewings in both are
relatively deep and the hindwings of a greater relative area than in other
Bornean species. However, the submarginals are broader and more continuous on
both fore- and hindwings and less strongly angled on the former, particularly at
the tornus. Females (one from Bali) have a small cream-coloured bar on the
forewing costa just distad from the postmedial.
Diomea
garroodi
(paratype) |
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Holotype
. Dutch West BORNEO [Kalimantan]: 85 miles above Pontianak (Simons
et Meligan (Sanggan)), ex Janson, April, 1909.
Paratypes:
1
SARAWAK:
Santubong Mt., 100m, 6.ix.1981: (Oxford
Far East Exp.) Exp.) BM noctuid slide 18168; 1
(slide
18553) Tenom, Brit. N. BORNEO (E. Wahr).
Geographical
range. Borneo, Bali.
Habitat
preference. This is a lowland species, probably from forested localities.
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