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Cossedia
kobesi
sp. n.
Cossedia kobesi
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13mm. The facies is similar to that of the previous two species, but the grey
areas are fainter and pinker and the yellow areas brighter than in either; the
strongly curved basal part of the forewing costa is broadly rich rufous brown,
as is the corresponding part of the thorax, and the same tinge occurs in some of
the more basal marks on the dorsum. The yellow areas are somewhat expanded
relative to the grey ones in the centre of the forewing, and the marginal grey
of the hindwing is very faint. The genitalia are similar to those of the
previous two species but the cornutus at the apex of the aedeagus vesica is
slightly larger.
Holotype
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BRUNEI: 350m, Ulu Temburong, LP283, 15.x.1978 (T.W. Harman), BM noctuid
slide 17402.
Taxonomic note. One of the paratypes of proesei (Sumatra, Aek Tarum,
Gunung Malayu, 16.1.83) appears, from a photograph provided by Prof. Kobes, to
be kobesi.
Geographical range. Borneo, ?Sumatra.
Habitat preference.
The only specimen is from hill dipterocarp forest
at 350m.
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