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Dysaethria
albolilacina sp.
n.
Dysaethria
albolilacina 
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10-11mm. The facies is of the conflictaria/lilacina type, but the
forewing is speckled grey-brown on white, with the postmedial fascia and
submarginal zone strongly shaded. The hindwing is strikingly contrasted between
the white anterior half and the much darker, grey posterior half. The male
genitalia have the uncus unequally quadrifid (the outer processes are probably
homologous with the prongs of the previous two species), and highly complex
valves and transtillar bridge as illustrated: there is a strong hair pencil
arising from a convolute structure near the valve base, and a tongue-like flap
subapically just below the much narrower apical portion of the valve. The
aedeagus vesica has a long, slender cornutus.
Holotype SARAWAK: Gunung Mulu Nat.
Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.) Site 21, March, W.
Melinau Gorge, 130m. 423576, alluvial /kerangas bank, BM uraniid slide 288.
Paratypes:2
as holotype but sites 20, 22, kerangas; l BORNEO, Sarawak, 4th mile,
Rock Road, 29.ix.1909; 1 S.E. BORNEO (Doherty).
Geographical range. Borneo, Sulawesi (slide 365).
Habitat preference. The species is rare in lowland forest, showing some
preferences for wet heath (kerangas) forest during the Mulu survey.
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