SUBFAMILY COLLOMENINAE
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Phaeothripa morena Swinhoe
Sarothripa morena Swinhoe, 1901, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 7: 490.

 


Phaeothripa morena


Diagnosis.
The forewings are a dark purple-grey, narrow and rather elliptical. There is a punctate postmedial, strongly angled as in L. scotia, and paler grey shading following a similar course that is only conspicuous at the centre of the dorsum.

Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Java.

Habitat preference. This is a rare lowland species, but one specimen was taken at 900m on the limestone G. Api during the Mulu survey.

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