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Barsine pallinflexa sp. n.


Barsine pallinflexa (paratype)
(x 1.38)


, 9-10mm. The forewing facies is similar to that of B. inflexa Moore comb. rev. (N.E. Himalaya), with longitudinal red streaking crossed by grey
fasciae on an orange-yellow ground, but the ground colour is paler, the red less extensive, and the grey fasciae more conspicuous. The antemedial and subbasal together form an ‘X’ (more parallel for much of their course in inflexa), the posterior part of the antemedial extending through the postmedial to the tornus. There is a semicircular grey line around the apex that is absent in inflexa, and also a prominent dark discal dot. The hindwings are pale orange-pink in inflexa, paler yellow in pallinflexa. The male genitalia lack the massive, disc-like development of the base of the uncus of inflexa, and have the valve apex deeply cleft rather than rounded.

Holotype SARAWAK: Gunong 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, BM arctiid slide 4750.

Paratypes:1 as holotype; 4, 1 general data as holotype but Sites 8, 9 (Camp 1, Mulu, 140m, 150m, mixed dipt. for.), 23 and 24 (W. Melinau Gorge, 250m, 270m, FEG 4, forest on limestone); 1 SABAH: Poring, 1800ft., E. of Mt. Kinabalu, 20-23.i.1976 (E. W. Classey); 1 MALAYSIA: Sabah, Danum Valley, 170m, 4º68’N, 117º48’E (S.J. Willott) 1º understorey 1U, Obs. Tower, DVFC, 29.iii.94.

Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra.

Habitat preference. All records are from lowland forest, including heath forest.

Biology. Kuroko & Lewvanich (1993) noted a member of this species group (as Miltochrista sp.) as feeding on Citrus (Rutaceae) as a larva.

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