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Narosa lawaii sp.
n.
 10mm.
The forewing is suffused with reddish pink that is fainter at the dorsum; the
hindwing is a pale flesh pink. Characters of the male genitalia are diagnostic:
the valve is acutely triangular, the spined central process small and extending
only weakly to the costal process; the costal process is short, basally curved,
acute; the ventral arm of the aedeagus is as long as the main portion.
Holotype
SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. (J.D. Holloway et al.) BM
1978-206, Site 25, April, G. Api, 900m, 427550, lower montane forest, BM
limacodid slide 387.
Geographical
range. Borneo.
Habitat
preference. The
type locality is in lower montane forest on limestone.
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