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Aemene marginipuncta Talbot comb. n.  
   
Parasiccia marginipuncta Talbot, 1926, Sarawak Mus. J., 3 (2): 136.
   
Parasiccia marginipuncta Talbot; Holloway, 1976: 3.


Aemene marginipuncta
(x 1.73)


Diagnosis.
This is the largest of the three Bornean species with a white or creamy-white ground colour, and the only one with bipectinate antennae in the male. Some spots of the fasciae can be fainter, brownish, and the outer element of the postmedial is more distinctly bidentate distal to the cell.

Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia.

Habitat preference. Records are infrequent, from 1660m to 1930m in upper montane forest on G. Mulu, G. Kinabalu and the type locality, G. Poi (Poeh) in Sarawak.

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