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Pelagodes cochlearis sp.
n.
Pelagodes cochlearis ♂
(holotype, Sumatra) |
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♂♂
19-20mm, 21mm. This is the largest species noted in
Borneo; the facies is typical of the genus. Again, diagnostic features are in
the male abdomen: the processes of the eighth segment are short broad,
spoon-like; the process from the valve costa is digitate, blunt, slightly
flexed, well subapical: the ventral margin of the valve is stepped.
The genitalia of a putative Bornean female from the same
locality as the male are illustrated.
Holotype ♂ Lebong Tandai, W. SUMATRA, 6.xii.1921 (C.J.
Brooks coll.) No 4179, BM geometrid slide 4077.
Geographical range. Sumatra, Borneo (slides 8466 (♂),
10712
(♀)).
Habitat preference. Two Bornean specimens are from mixed
dipterocarp forest at 150m (Mulu survey), and a third from Bidi, also in the
lowlands of Sarawak.
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