SUBFAMILY NOCTUINAE
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Diarsia borneochracea sp.n.
    Diarsia ochracea
Walker sensu Holloway, 1976: 7.


Diarsia borneochracea
(paratype)


15-16mm. The species is the smallest in Borneo; the forewings are an ochreous fawn with darker brown markings. The posterior half of the reniform stigma is usually darkened. In facies the species resembles ochracea Walker from Sri Lanka and gaudens Hampson from Java but is distinguished by reduction of the spined band of the aedeagus to two or three unequal spines downturned at the apex of the aedeagus. The dorsally directed process of the harpe is much more strongly sinuous than in either of these species.


Holotype
SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat Park, RGS Exped. 1977-B (J.D. Holloway et al.) BM 1978-206. Site 6, January, Gunong Mulu, 2360m, low summit scrub. BM noctuid slide 12966.

Paratypes:
2 as holotype; 20 examples SABAH: Mt Kinabalu, various localities, Cambridge Expedition to Mt Kinabalu, 1965 (H.J. Banks, H. S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway) Brit. Mus. 1968-86, BM noctuid slides 12924,12929.

Geographical range.
Borneo.

Habitat preference.
The species is common from 1600m to 2600m on G. Kinabalu and is also known from the dwarf forest zone at the summit of G. Mulu (2360m).

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