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“Scaptesyle” sororigena sp. n.
"Scaptesyle" sororigena 
(paratype)
(x 1.73) |
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6-7mm. This species is slightly smaller than aurigena, with the apical and basal areas of the forewing darker,
the basal one relatively smaller with a less oblique distal edge. The male
genitalia have the saccular process less robust and not so strongly flexed
centrally, but flexed at one third and two thirds. The aedeagus is characterised
by two unequal spines at its apex.
Holotype
.SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park,
R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway
et al.), Site 8, February, Camp 1, Mulu, 150m,
385470, mixed dipt. for., BM arctiid slide 4983.
Paratype
MALAYSIA: Sabah, Danum Valley, 170m, 4º58N, 117º48E (S.J.
Willott), 1º Canopy JC, Cpy Wkway, BRL, 11.vii.’95.
Geographical
range. Borneo.
Habitat
preference. Both
specimens were taken in lowland dipterocarp forest.
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