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Diduga ciliata sp.
n.
Diduga
ciliata ♂
(holotype)
(x 1.63) |
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♂ 5mm.
The size and forewing facies are very similar to that of pectinifer, but the antennae are ciliate. The genitalia are
markedly different, having valves of the short, many-processed, asymmetric type:
the right costal process is hammer-headed, the saccular one digitate, shallowly
angled; the left costal process is curved, tongue-like, and the saccular process
is curved, slender. The aedeagus is sharply flexed.
Holotype
♂. Pulo Laut, BORNEO, (Doherty),
June [18]91, BM arctiid slide 5097.
Geographical
range. Borneo.
Habitat
preference. The
species is from the same locality as pectinifer.
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