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Didigua
roseata
sp. n.
15mm. This species is somewhat larger than the previous one and with a more
transverse fasciation to the generally darker, distinctly reddish grey forewing.
The punctate antemedial has a paler band just basal to it, is slightly curved
over the posterior three-quarters and then stepped sharply basad subcostally.
The course of the submarginal is much more irregular in all the above species,
even those like alticola and heidwigae where the submarginal also
has an adjacent pale band. In the genitalia, the costal process of the valve is
broad, shallowly bifid. The aedeagus vesica has one strongly curved diverticulum
that has a terminal row of about five curved cornuti ventrally.
Holotype
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SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.Holloway et al.),
Site 21, March, 130m, 423576. alluvial/kerangas bank, BM noctuid slide 16796.
Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia.
Habitat preference. The single male was taken on a river terrace bank
between alluvial forest and heath forest west of the Melinau Gorge in the G.
Mulu National Park.
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