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Spaniocentra apatelloides sp. n.  
   
Spaniocentra apatella West sensu Holloway, 1976: 61.


Spaniocentra apatelloides
(holotype)


Spaniocentra apatelloides
(paratype)


15-17mm, 16-18mm. In facies this species resembles S. apatella West (Philippines, Sulawesi) and S. undiferata Walker (Sulawesi), but has distinctive male genitalia. In the related species there is a single, simple saccular spine, very
short in apatella. In apatelloides this is moderate but less tapering, rugose, apically blunt, with a second spine twice as long, tapering, running alongside, arising subcostally near the base of the valve. The broad aedeagus has a massive patch of cornuti in the vesica. There are two such patches in the aedeagus of undiferata but in apatella the aedeagus is narrow, the cornuti much smaller, shorter.

Holotype  SARAWAK: Gunung Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.) Site 3, January, Camp 4, Mulu, 1780m, 453443, montane forest, BM geometrid slide 10659.

Paratypes: 1 general data as holotype but Site 1, same general locality and altitude, BM geometrid slide 8641; 3 1 NORD BORNEO: Mount Kina Balu, 5.8.1903 (John Waterstradt); 1 SABAH: Mt Kinabalu, Park H.Q., 1620m, vii-ix.1965, Cambridge Expedition to Mt. Kinabalu 1965 (H.J. Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway) Brit. Mus. 1968-186, BM geometrid slide 8936.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. All records are from upper montane forest. At present the species is only known from G. Kinabalu and G. Mulu.

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