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Pelagodes semengok sp. n.
Pelagodes semengok ♂ (holotype) |
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♂ 16mm. The facies is
indistinguishable from that of the previous species. The male abdomen has the
following diagnostic features: the eighth segment processes are terminally
bifid, with a third spine interiorly just beyond the centre of each; the valve
costal spine is strongly curved, slender, acute, rather erect, arising at about
two thirds along the costal margin.
Holotype ♂ SARAWAK: Kuching,
Semengok, 3-9.ii. 1976 (E. W. Classey) BM geometrid slide 8683.
Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia (FRIM colln), Sumatra.
Habitat preference. The type locality is in lowland rain forest.
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