TRIBE GEOMETRINI
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Pelagodes tridens sp. n.


Pelagodes tridens ♂ (holotype)


♂ 16mm. The facies is typical of the group. Characters of the male abdomen are diagnostic as follows: the eighth segment processes are relatively short, straight, terminating in three unequal spines; the valve is similar to that of rana.

Holotype ♂. Mt. Marapok, Dent Province, Brit. N. BORNEO, BM geometrid slide 8678.

Paratype: 1♂ SABAH, Malaysia, Agric. Res. Stn., Tuaran (S.C.F. Chung) slide 7477.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. No details are given on the holotype labels: The paratype is from a cultivated lowland area with some forest fragments.

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