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Chorsia
rogersi sp. n.
 12mm, The wings are rather worn, but the facies appears to
resemble that of kingi. The male genitalia are very different however, with the dorsal
process of the uncus spine-like distal to a dish-like plate, and the distal
process long, slender, apically hooked and relatively basal, appearing to be
based at the apex of the tegumen.
Chorsia
rogersi
(holotype) |
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Holotype
. BRUNEI: 15m, Telisai, secondary heath forest and Gymnostoma,
3.2.1979 (Lt.
Col. M.G. Allen), BM noctuid slide 18514.
Geographical
range. Borneo.
Habitat
preference. The only specimen was taken in an area of lowland heath forest
dominated by Gymnostoma on a white, sandy soil.
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