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Nygmia longitegumen sp.
n.
Nygmia longitegumen 
(paratype)
Nygmia longitegumen  (paratype)
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15, 16mm,
17-22mm. The facies of the forewings is a
rich pale brown version of the civitta group type, distinguished by the
absence of white marginal marks and the presence of a black one more or less
centrally. The discal spot is absent. The male genitalia are distinctive, with
the tegumen extended ventrally to overlap the vinculum, the highly setose,
triangular valves with spines at the apical and saccular angles, and a bicornute
juxta. The aedeagus is typical of the civitta group with a immaculate
vesica and a small apical spur.
Holotype BRUNEI: 300m, Ulu Temburong, rainforest, 30.6.79 (Lt. Col. M. G.
Allen) BM lymantriid slide 2518.
Paratypes: 2 as holotype but 20 Feb 82; 2 BRUNEI; 60m,
Labi, lowland forest,
12.1.80 and 12.4.81 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen); 1 BRUNEI: 60m, Ulu
Belait,
lowland forest, 20.2.80, (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen); 1 SARAWAK: Gunung Mulu Nat. Park,
R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.
Holloway et al.) Site 20, Mar.-Apr., W. Melinau Gorge, 150m, 422577, FEG 3,
kerangas; 2 MALAYSIA:
Sabah, Danum Valley, 170m
4º 58N, 1 17º 48E (S.J.
Willott) 2º understorey, Bkt. Atur Rd., DVFC, 30.ix.93, and 1º understorey,
Obs. Patform, DVFC, 5.viii.93.
Geographical range. Borneo, ?Sumatra (male illustrated for perplexa by
Schintlmeister, 1994: Plate 5).
Habitat preference. All material is from lowland forest.
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