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Metaphoenia
carneipennis Prout stat. n.
Metaphoenia
incongrualis carneipennis A.E. Prout, 1926, Sarawak Mus. J.,
3: 238.
Diagnosis.
See the previous species. The costal process of the valve in the male is not
bifid apically. The female has a distinct zone of sparser scobination on the
eighth segment on each side of the ostium, and the pair of pockets in the pouch
anterior to this are associated with patches of denser scobination.
Taxonomic
note. The species was originally described as a subspecies of incongrualis
Walker,
where the male genitalia have the valve processes set much more basally, the
apical part being about twice as long as in carneipennis;
the uncus is much longer, strongly downcurved, with a distinctly broader distal
half. The lacuna on the eighth sternite is much reduced relative to a more
extensive zone of scale bases over the posterior half of the sclerite in incongrualis,
with concavity on the anterior margin.
Geographical
range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia.
Habitat
preference. Dissected material consists of the holotype from Mt. Dulit, two
from lower montane forest at 1000m and one from hill dipterocarp forest at 500m
on G. Mulu, one from 250m on G. Api and three from 100m on G. Santubong in
Sarawak.
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