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Labanda
palliviridis
sp. n.
 
13-15mm. The forewings are more extensively pale dull green than in previous
species, the blackish markings reduced and more distinctly transverse. The
medial zone is distinctly darker and contains a blackish discal spot. The
hindwings are medium greyish brown. The male genitalia are similar to those of
striatula and contrastriatula, but the female genitalia have a more
diamond-shaped lamella antevaginalis and a distinctly narrower bursa that lacks
a group of spines.
Holotype
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SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.Holloway et al.),
Site 11, February, Camp 1, Mulu, 150m. 385470, mixed dipt. for./river, BM
noctuid slide 16723.
Paratypes:
1
as holotype but Site 8; 2,
1
as holotype but Site 13, 500m. 401464, mixed dipt. for.; 2
general data as holotype but Site 27, April, G. Api, 1500m, Pandanus Camp,
429541, scrub, Pandanus; 1
(slide 17382) BRUNEI: 300m, Ulu Temburong, rainforest, 29.4.81 (Lt. Col. M.G.
Allen).
Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, N. E. Himalaya (Khasia
Hills, slide 17467).
Habitat preference.
Most material is from lowland and hill dipterocarp
forest but two specimens are from montane forest on limestone.
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