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Lymantria
kinta Collenette
Lymantria kinta Collenette, 1932, Novit. zool., 38: 97.
Lymantria
kinta 
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Lymantria
kinta 
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Diagnosis and taxonomic notes. This species and the final two are closely related,
together with L. sarantuja Schintlmeister (Sumatra) and a dark species in
Java with genitalia similar to kinta (slide 721) that may be distinct.
All have similar facies and distinctive elongate male genitalia with spine-like,
undivided valves. L. kinta has more robust, incurved valves and a well
defined but short saccus (also seen in the Javan species). The discal chevron of
the forewing is entire as in sarantuja, a similar, rather uniform, pale
species, but has more acute submarginal lunules at the forewing tornus that are
more heavily filled with dark brown; the valves are much longer and straight.
The female illustrated by Schintlmeister (1994) as that of kinta is
probably that of the new species described below.
Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.
Habitat preference. All records are from lowland forest. The species is
much less common than the next.
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